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FROM: Linnea T. Nichols                           (703)324-2708
    Systems Programming Mgr.          LNICHO AT co.fairfax.va DOT us
    Fairfax County Department of Information Technology
Subject: WinNT Restore Gone Awry
I just had my first experience with restoring a WinNT and it has not
been a pleasant experience. We couldn't get it restored, and the user is
now not very happy at all with me. The client has known that the machine
was corrupted in some fashion for 4 or 5 days now. But ADSM has been
performing it's backup every night just fine. By the time I heard about
the problems, the user had already reformatted their hard drive and
reinstalled WinNT -- so we did an DSMC RESTORE with -LATEST and -REP=NO.
Restores appeared to go fine. Then the user did a DSMC REGREST ENTIRE --
also appeared to work fine. After rebooting the machine, the user said
that everything was hosed and that they couldn't get to things (but it
appears that NT rebooted -- I wasn't there to see the error messages ).
Needless to say, the user is very unhappy, talking backing up to their
own tape drives, and is rebuilding/re-installing applications as I type
this. Is there anyway that I could have gotten this system restored???
(I've read the bare metal restore, and since they'd already reformatted
the hard drive, it didn't seem to make a lot of sense to try the restore
partition approach). Where did I go wrong?????

Linnea Nichols                          lnicho AT co.fairfax.va DOT us
Fairfax Co. Govt., Fairfax, VA                     703-324-2708
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