Without any detail it is hard to say why it did not work.

We have restored many W2k3 servers by dropping an OS down and restoring the old 
OS on top. We have done it with real and imagined servers.
There are some fatal traps...
1. The target of the restore needs to be similar hardware, real or imagined.
2. The target needs to be the same SP and close to the original in patches.  
There are a few patches that can be fatal if not applied first.
3. We find it best if the target has the same name.  Does not need to be in the 
domain.
4. This one may be just us, but the Windows directory needs to be the same.

There are work arounds to most, if not all, of the above; but for simplicity 
those rules work.
We have a batch job that does the TSM part, it is only 2 or 3 commands.


Andy Huebner

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Grigori Solonovitch
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 7:06 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Restore trouble on Virtuel W2K3 server.

I do not think it is possible to do restore like this - you need to use some 
Bare Machine Recovery software like TBMR (Bare Machine Recovery for TSM).

In addition, you can just clone VM instead of using TSM, if source and target 
servers are VMs.

Grigori G. Solonovitch


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Bo Carsten Krogholm Nielsen
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 2:52 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Restore trouble on Virtuel W2K3 server.

Hi all,

I have restored a W2K3 server in a VM environment, but now it will not back up.
It is a new server, where I restored the backup from another server.
1. Restored C-drive
2. SystemState restored.

Then boot the server, which then stops during boot.
What went wrong?


Have fun

Bo Nielsen
Senior Technology Consultant

DONG Energy A/S
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