We found out the source of our problem with Windows 2003 restores, I
don't know if this helps anyone, but it might.
When we moved to Windows 2003, a large number of servers were upgrade
from Windows 2000. If you go that path, the OS is in c:\winnt.
After the crash, when you re-install the base OS, if you install 2003
fresh, it installs in C:\windows. If you then do a restore from Legato
of the System STATE, SYSTEM DB, etc, it will put it in C:\WINNT, which
causes the problem.
The solution is when you do the OS install for the disaster recovery,
make sure you install it in the same directory that you will be
restoring to (check nwadmin, etc...).
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Matthew Huff | One Manhattanville Rd
Director of Operations | Purchase, NY 10577
OTA LLC | Phone: 914-460-4039
http://www.otaotr.com | Fax: 914-460-4139
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Huff
> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 8:11 AM
> To: 'Jones, Stephen (East Kilbride) [OS-IE]'
> Subject: RE: [Networker] Windows 2003 OS Restore - Anyone
> Done It Successfully?
>
> We are very interested in your testing. We recently ran into
> the same problem with an HP server full restore. We have
> setup a non-critical machine to test with and to open a case
> with HP and Legato. Lets keep in touch.
>
> Our configuration
> Legato 7.2.1 client on Windows 2003
> Legato 7.2.1 server on Sun V490 running Solaris 9
>
>
>
> --
> Matthew Huff | One Manhattanville Rd
> Director of Operations | Purchase, NY 10577
> OTA LLC | Phone: 914-460-4039
> mailto:mhuff AT ox DOT com | Fax: 914-460-4139
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Legato NetWorker discussion
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Jones,
> Stephen (East Kilbride) [OS-IE]
> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 6:36 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] Windows 2003 OS Restore - Anyone Done It
> Successfully?
>
> 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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