Re: [ADSM-L] restore of 2008 r2 server wih web iis role

Nice write-up Andy!


~Rick


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Andrew Raibeck
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 7:26 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] restore of 2008 r2 server wih web iis role

Hi Tim,

No special steps should be necessary.

You should observe the following:

1. The restore method you mentioned works fairly well for Windows 2003,
but
is not "best practice" for Windows Vista and higher. Rather, you should
use
WinPE and ASR as outlined here:

   http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/x/EwgFD

Microsoft does not support BMR/DR scenarios involving dissimilar
hardware.
In practice, you can get away with some minor hardware differences, such
as:

   * Restore to a system with different memory
   * Restore to a system with larger disks than original system

The above wiki article includes some of the "gotchas" that will cause
restore issues.

2. When backing up Windows, you should follow the advice given in this
presentation:

   http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27023299

It is a large presentation containing a lot of history and background,
but
the "bottom line" backup recommendations are on pages 27 - 33 of the PDF
file. On that same web page, you can link to a recording of my
presentation
of the material. It is lengthy, but contains information you might find
insightful.

In particular, for "proof of concept" testing:

   * Exclude as little as possible, unless you KNOW that the files are
not
needed to restore a viable system.
   * In particular, do not exclude NTUSER.DAT* and USRCLASS*.DAT files.
   * Use OFS with VSS as the snapshot provider for backup of drives
(dsm.opt file option SNAPSHOTPROVIDERFS VSS).
   * Check dsmsched.log and dsmerror.log for any anomalous messages
found
during the backup (you want NO anomalous messages)

3. Make sure you have remediated the issue described in this flash and
APAR:

      http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21462430
      http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC72446

If you have HP OpenView installed, you need to check for that issue. If
you
are affected, then at a minimum, apply the registry change described in
the
above flash to all Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 systems. If you also
provide system state backup support for Windows Vista and Windows 7
workstations, then this change should be applied on those as well. For
longer term, install Microsoft hotfix 2647841 (
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2647841) , which corrects this problem
for
any service that might use '/' instead of '\' in the registry. If you
apply
the hotfix, then the HP OpenView registry value change is not necessary.

4. Once you know you have a clean backup (do not accept anything less
than
return code 0, no warning messages or anything else), then try the
restore.
See if that changes anything.

Best regards,

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development
Level 3 Team Lead
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Hartford/IBM@IBMUS
Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page:
http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Tivoli/Tivoli_
Storage_Manager

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu> wrote on 2012-09-10
09:47:03:

> From: Tim Brown <tbrown AT CENHUD DOT COM>
> To: ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu,
> Date: 2012-09-10 10:30
> Subject: restore of 2008 r2 server wih web iis role
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu>
>
> Restored Window 2008 r2 server that had the IIS role enabled
>
> but the restored server is indicating that the role is not installed.
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> Is there any special steps that are required so that the restored
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> server has the iis role installed.
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> Steps:
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>  installed new server same os, sp level
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>  restored c: drive and system state
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> Thanks,
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> Tim Brown
> Supervisor Computer Operations
>
> Central Hudson Gas & Electric
> 284 South Ave
> Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
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