Hallo Howard,
The answer is that recovery of Windows to a system with non-identical
hardware configuration is not supported by Microsoft.
Gleaning over the manual is not sufficient, you need to study the document
very carefully because even on identical hardware there particular
conditions required to a system recovery.
I suggest that you pester your local Legato Rep about Bare Metal Recovery. I
wish you luck, you are going to need it.
Bye
Ernie
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From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
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Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 4:31 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] NetWorker Disaster Recovery
Server: NetWorker 7.1.2.325 under Solaris 8
Clients: NetWorker 7.1.1_rtm.277 under Windows 2000 Server
Dear NetWorker Gurus,
I'm trying to come up with a disaster recovery plan for recovering Windows
clients to machines of a different spec. - you can't always expect to lay
your hands on a replacement that's exactly the same as the one that's just
blown up can you :o|
As far as I can glean from the NetWorker 7.1 Disaster Recovery doc. and our
NetWorker support (Not Legato) you can recover an entire system backup of a
client to another machine, reboot and be back up and running. However,
during testing I tried to recover a client to another machine of a different
spec. (drive designations, IP address and network ID the same and at least
the same amount of disk space as the original) the recovered machine hung
during reboot - watching as it booted in safe mode (with networking) it got
as far as loading mup.sys then froze. The data files don't cause any real
problems, but if I recover the SYSTEM FILES, SYSTEM DB and SYSTEM STATE it
all goes pear-shaped on reboot.
Does anyone else have experience of this sort of scenario? I'd appreciate
any advice or comments anyone might have.
Best Regards,
Vince
Vince Howard
Programmer/UNIX System Administrator
IT Section
Wansbeck District Council
Front Street West
Bedlington
Northumberland
NE22 5TU
UK
Tel (DDI): +44 (0)1670 843472
Fax: +44 (0)1670 843484
e-mail: v.howard AT wansbeck.gov DOT uk
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