IBM has published a paper with a technique for restoring WinNT to different
hardware.
Go to this website:  www.brs.ibm.com

There is a link on the first page to "Techniques for Restoring WinNT
Servers".

You have to register to download the white paper, but it's free.

Haven't tried it myself yet, but looks promising.
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The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Giles [SMTP:Dan_Giles AT MANULIFE DOT COM]
> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 11:34 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: ADSM Restore on NT Cluster Server
>
> Yes, you CAN restore to a different box. You just have to make sure that
> the partitions are at least as large as on the original box. The
> difference
> is that you have to step through the registry recovery and skip restoring
> the hardware registry.
>
> There are several bare-metal restore redbooks that are linked from the
> ADSM
> home page. I would suggest checking these out.
>
> Dan Giles
> Application Specialist
> Manulife Financial, Corporate
> Phone: 416-926-3549 Fax: 416-926-5234
>
>
>
>
>
> From: "Kelly J. Lipp" <lipp AT STORSOL DOT COM> on 99/01/27 03:42 AM GMT
>
> Please respond to "lipp AT storsol DOT com" <lipp AT storsol DOT com>
>
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> cc:    (bcc: ADSM)
> Subject:  Re: ADSM Restore on NT Cluster Server
>
>
>
>
> I'll try 1.
>
> I would think not, unless that box is identical to the original as the
> registry entries re. hardware would not be correct.  You could certainly
> restore the "data" but not the OS and related files.
>
> Re. 2.
>
> I would think you could restore the "cluster" backup to one of the
> original
> systems as long as all of the drives are visible to that system.  There
> was
> an excellent description of the method to use to backup an NT cluster
> provided here a number of weeks ago.  Perhaps the author of that note can
> repost it here.  I don't think any of us see that one too many times.
>
> Kelly J. Lipp
> Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
> www.storsol.com
> lipp AT storsol DOT com
> (719)531-5926
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Julie Cleaves
> Sent:   Tuesday, January 26, 1999 7:06 PM
> To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:        ADSM Restore on NT Cluster Server
>
>      We are looking into developing a DRP for our NT Cluster Servers and
>      have a few questions that I am not able to find much information
>      about.  I am hoping someone might know about this:
>
>      1.  Can you restore to a box that is different than the one you
> backed
>      up?
>
>      2.  Can you restore to a single box (unclustered)?
>
>      Any information you have about this would be helpful.
>
>      Thank you,
>      Julie Cleaves
>      Whirlpool Corp.