I never got ASR restores to work either. I experienced the exact same issues
you describe. I now use Symantec Backup Exec System Restore for System backups
and EMC Networker for Data backups. My last DR test I was able to restore 20
servers by myself in less than 24 hours. If you don't like Symantec, Acronis
has a similar product called True Image. Both allow you to lay down any system
image to any hardware including VM's.
--S
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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Andrew Dietz
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 2:34 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] ASR Bare Metal Restores
Have any of you done Windows bare metal restores using the ASR method?
Are there any gotchas and/or lessons learned from doing this? I would
love to hear your accounts.
Preliminarily, it looks like if you had to manually install drivers for
your NIC after installing Windows 2003 because Windows could not detect
it, the ASR disk will not include those drivers so setup can contact the
NetWorker server to do a full restore... Can anyone confirm this?
After this failed, we manually installed Windows, then the NetWorker
client and did a full restore on top of that. Upon a reboot, the machine
blue-screened. In the absence of these two methods of restoring a
Windows box, what other alternative are there out there that anyone can
recommend?
Thanks in advance,
Andrew
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