I recently did a full system restore of a win2k3
machine to another win2k3 machine and didnot follow
the doc. Here is what I did:
1. Backup server A (ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES) running win2k3
NBU6.0MP4
2. On server B, which is also win2k3, install
NBU6.0MP4
3. From Master, did a full system restore of server A
onto server B (C: D: E: F: G: and Shadow Copy
Components
4. After restore is done, I unlug network cable from
server B and reboot
5. When B came up, changed the name and IP addr, and
boot again
6. At this point server B has the same software loaded
as that of A and identical config
I did the same procdure on 3 machines so far, same
hardware, except missing one emulex HBA in one
machine.
Cheers
MK
--- "Rosenkoetter, Gabriel"
<Gabriel.Rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz> wrote:
> 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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