Hi,

 

We are having real problems restoring a Windows 2003 server following a
catastrophic disk failure. It's an HP server with a Smart Array controller
configured in RAID 5 formation, however two disks failed at the same time
which meant we had to rebuild from scratch.

 

We have had a number of attempts at doing the restore - results below:

 

1.      We installed the OS manually which booted fine, however after doing
the Legato Restore the system wouldn't boot - it just blue screened. It
didn't even let us get into safe mode - we had the option of booting into
safe mode, but when we selected it the server just blue screened again.


2.      We used an older backup tape to do the second restore, just in case
the most recent tape used in the first attempt had corruptions on it from
early stages of the disk failure. This was slightly better, but a number of
services did not start properly, in fact we couldn't even get into the
control panel to check what services were running!

 

I would have thought that a restore of the Windows OS was a simple task for
Networker. Is anyone aware of any gotchas or pre-requisites that need to be
done before doing the restore? Has anyone actually managed to get a Win2003
server back to its original state using Networker? Do we need to use Open
File Manager to guarantee that we can recover the OS from tape?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Stephen


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