Absolutely; I will follow up with my results. Don’t go away.
From: WEAVER, Simon
(external) [mailto:simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 8:29 AM
To: Randy Samora; Rosenkoetter, Gabriel
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
Got
to admit, I restored a DC Win2k3 in AD Restore Mode, and I did not follow the
document.
Can
you let us know how this goes?
From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]
On Behalf Of Randy Samora
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 2:23 PM
To: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
If this works, you have a case of beer headed your way.
I’ve been stressing over this for years.
I’ll let you know how it goes.
Thanks,
Randy
From: Rosenkoetter,
Gabriel [mailto:Gabriel.Rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 7:27 AM
To: Randy Samora; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
Assuming
that you've got either the Shadow Copy Components:\ target (or, preferably, ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES)
in the policy's include list, then there are a few extra steps you should take
when doing a full system restore for Win2k3 (while not using BMR, which
"should" take care of all of this for you).
This tech
note does a pretty good job of describing it:
http://support.veritas.com/docs/295342
The main nut
of it is that you need to do an OS install, a NetBackup client install, go run
[...]\VERITAS\bin\w2koption -restore -same_hardware 1 once, perform the
restore, then run the same command again (because you just laid down a restored
registry in which that may not have been set, is my understanding), then
reboot. And cross your fingers.
(That said,
it still tends to be hairy, especially for domain controllers--or whatever we
call those in an AD world--and a co-worker has a case open in which portions of
SCC fail to restore properly on a DC under 6.5...)
--
gabriel
rosenkoetter
Radian Group
Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup & Recovery
gabriel.rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz,
215 231 1556
________________________________
From: Randy
Samora [mailto:Randy.Samora AT stewart DOT com]
Sent:
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 6:21 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject:
[Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
Part of my
requirements are test restores of critical boxes in a lab environment.
The lab is isolated and when I restore a client, there’s not really much we can
test because the client looks for the production network. Today I had to
restore a Windows 2003 Server in the production environment and most of the
registry wasn’t restored; services and other objects were missing. With
the test restores, I always had the option of doing an ntbackup of the System
State and then I would run a full backup of the client. I’d take my tape
to the lab, run a full restore, but before I rebooted the restored client, I
restored the ntbackup of the System State (Shadow Copy Component.) That
seemed to work just fine. But today when the server blew up, there was no
opportunity to do an ntbackup of the SS first. I asked Symantec last year
if the ntbackup was still needed and they said no, a full backup and restore
should recover the client. I just never had the chance to test that
theory.
Am I missing
a step? I installed the OS from a basic CD install, loaded the NBU
client, and then did a full restore. But it’s as if the system state was
never restored so I’m wondering if I’m even backing it up. How can I
tell? Do I need VSS or VSP activated in order to get a good copy of the
system state? We turned VSP off over a year ago because we were having
problems with the orphaned cache files. I’ve never gone back and changed
the setting on most of the clients and my plans were to start using VSS but
haven’t gotten to that task either. Is there a trick or an added step to
getting a good backup of the system state on a Windows 2003 Server server or is
there a trick to restoring it?
Thanks,
Randy
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