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Re: WIndows NT Disaster Recovery

2001-04-23 16:20:51
Subject: Re: WIndows NT Disaster Recovery
From: Rajesh Oak <rajeshoak AT LYCOS DOT COM>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:21:14 -0400
Shekhar,
When you restore the registry you have the option of making the restored 
registry active.

Rajesh Oak
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 15:53:03
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 15:53:03
 Shekhar      Dhotre wrote:
>
>
>Prassana ,
> I am  not having problem until restoring NT  image from  Ghost . Once you
>restore NT from Ghost and reboot the NT server
>I am connecting to TSM server (RS/6000) .  And  I am restoring everything to 
>C:\
>(Winnt . adsm.sys ,boot.ini  etc..)
>When you try to restore Registry file from adsm.sys directory to c:
>\winnt\system32\config    directory ..WinNT
> does not allow  to do so. as Registry   from Ghost  is already active in the
>above location . (When I restore from  Veritas,
>It  overwrites everything, on the image created by Ghost  Don't know how?)
> I am able to restore registry (adsm.sys ) , if I install NT in c:\junk
>directory .
>have you restored files from adsm.sys directory to c:\winnt\system32\config
>location when you restore from Ghost ? if So how ?
>
>Thanks
>Shekhar Dhotre
>Unix/Tivoli Admin.
>
>
>
>
>
>"Ghanekar, Prasanna" <prasanna.ghanekar AT EDS DOT COM>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 
>04/23/2001
>03:01:34 PM
>
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>Subject:  Re: WIndows NT Disaster Recovery
>
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>This is How GHOST performs Windows NT Recovery,
>
>Ghost 2001 runs from outside the Windows Operating system. When you install
>Ghost, it creates a boot disk that contains variety of drivers including
>Ghost program. The disk is designed to be universally compatible so it works
>on most of the NT servers.
>Once you boot that server with this functional disk, you can create an image
>file of the disk or partition containing windows operating system and
>applications. You could also tell the program to place that image ona disk,
>CD or multiple CD's. It has different levels of compression levels built
>within the program.
>You could also make the CD where you place an image to be a bootable CD.
>While restoring, you simply insert the CD into the drive and boot from it.
>Youer server will automatically load ghost from the CD, and the files from
>the Backup set will be available right aaway. This process also works from
>outside windows, you don't have to go through installing operating system.
>It completely restores your operating system including device drivers and
>applications associated with it.
>I hope this Helps.
>
>Prasanna
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Shekhar Dhotre [mailto:shekhar.dhotre.b AT BAYER DOT COM]
>Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 1:22 PM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: WIndows NT Disaster Recovery
>
>
>
>So should i ask WINNT folks to drop /winnt   directory to D: instead C: ?
>thats
>what you mean ?
>and thenrestore everything (BAckup , WINNT ,data to C: drive ?
>
>shekhar
>
>
>
>
>Thomas Denier <Thomas.Denier AT MAIL.TJU DOT EDU>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 04/23/2001
>11:28:50
>AM
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>Subject:  Re: WIndows NT Disaster Recovery
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>
>Quoting Shekhar Dhotre <shekhar.dhotre.b AT BAYER DOT COM>:
>
>>
>>
>> Thanks  for reply .
>> So from your thoughts it seems to me that I cannot recover NT server
>> using Ghost
>> .
>> I don't know How Veritas does it ,Nt admins  installs  NT from Ghost ,
>> and
>> Veritas administrator
>> overwrites everything that is on  NT BOX . (Including winnt.,registry
>> ,boot.ini
>> etc..) . No registry  problems.
>>  We are switching from Veritas to Tivoli .. And NT admins   are asking
>> me to
>> implement  ant same method for WinNT DR  .
>
>You can use Ghost as a quick way to install the recovery system that
>is used to run TSM restores of the production system. As far as I know,
>that is the only way Ghost and TSM can cooperate in restoring a
>Windows NT system. Sites that use Ghost this way generally put the
>recovery system and its TSM client software in a separate partition
>rather than non-standard folders in the production partition.
>
>


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