Hello:

My recovery procedure is as follows for a restoration of a wintel box.
Please RFC.  I do not use Bare Metal product, ghost, Acronis or any
other layer:


1. provide similar hardware including array controller
2. rebuild fresh OS -- without service packs!
3. during setup create a local account called Recover and assign
password (in case OS goes goofy).
4. do not join to any domain - yet.  Standalone workgroup mode
5. ensure TCP and DNS connectivity to the Netbackup host
6. install Netbackup client - latest should suffice.
7. reboot.
8. do a test restore of a single file from the master server.  This
validates NBU operations, network, etc.
9. Fire in the hole: restore system state, all file systems as
necessary.
        Overwrite active files option should be chosen.

        Exclude from restore the following files for optimization if
files exist on the initial load
        a.      C:\Cmdcons (if exist)
        b.      C:\documents and settings\administrator
        c.      C:\boot.bak
        d       C:\boot.ini
        e.      Cmldr
        f.      Config.sys
        g.      Dossa_setup.log
        h.      Sossa_unisntall
        i.      iO.sys
        j.      msdos.sys
        k.      System volume information from any partition
        l.      C:\program files\common\veritas\netbackup.dll;
grasbt.dll;                     sigcomp2io.dll
        m.      c:\windows\system32\drivers\vsp.sys
        n.      Pagefile.sys (if on backup image)
        o.      C:\program files\veritas\netbackup
10. reboot.
11. test.
12. apply any service patches, fixes as necessary.

I've been fairly successful with this method.

Please comment and critique.




Sincerely,
Jim Siano, sysadmin
Lockheed Martin / Enterprise Information Systems
Moorestown, New Jersey site
Phone: 856.722.4783
james.c.siano at lmco.com
http://www.motown.lmco.com/~jsiano (internal to LMCO)
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