Same procedure for us, make the server bootable with baseline OS and NW 
install, full restore with overwrite always.  We've had the occasional gotcha 
with Wintel boxes (mostly the SA rebuilds using a ghost image and then 
'forgets' that ghost leaves a stub so the boot.ini has to be modified to point 
to the 'new' location for the original MBR).  But UNIX is generally clean and 
uneventful.
--Ted 

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On 
Behalf Of Landwehr, Jerome
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 9:57 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Directed recover to new disk

there's just the TOC and the magic boot block to worry about - aside from that 
it should work

we usually just jumpstart another disk, install NW and overlay a full recover - 
assuming the client machine is ok

HTH
Jerry

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On 
Behalf Of K D
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 10:35 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Directed recover to new disk

Some important clues that may help decipher my plan:

Server A is a Solaris box as is the machine (we will call Server B) with the 
empty drive bay.

Server B does not use the replacement disk at all.  It is a completely self 
sufficient system with its own boot disk.

The replacement disk for Server A is placed into the spare drive bay of Server 
B for the sole purpose of restoring data to it.  The disk is partitioned and 
formatted to exactly match the one that crashed on Server A.
 Server B already is a client of Networker and has the Networker client 
installed.

I should be able to do a directed recover of Server A's file sytems to the 
mounted partitions of replacement disk on Server B.

Thank you,
Kris

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