Well, since what we have in place is the best we can do for now, what other
solution is available?
We cannot shut down systems and image raw disks, so until next March, what do
we do?
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Matthew Huff | One Manhattanville Rd
OTA Management LLC | Purchase, NY 10577
http://www.ox.com | Phone: 914-460-4039
aim: matthewbhuff | Fax: 914-460-4139
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jones_Michael2 AT emc DOT com [mailto:Jones_Michael2 AT emc DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 4:19 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU; Matthew Huff
> Subject: RE: [Networker] DR enabled backup of Windows Server 2008
>
> An image of the entire drive c is a requirement
>
> Please see MS article below
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/249694
>
> This has the following text
>
> "System State Recovery after a new installation of Windows Server 2008 on new
> hardware or same
> hardware This kind of recovery is not supported.
>
> Windows Server Backup does not block recovery on a newly-installed operating
> system. Instead, it warns
> that this operation is not supported. This feature is used only as a
> last-ditch support effort to
> reclaim data from a failed server and is not a supported backup feature
>
> System State Recover is only supported on the same operating system instance.
> It is not supported on a
> reinstalled operating system on the same or different hardware"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
> On Behalf Of Matthew Huff
> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 4:25 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] DR enabled backup of Windows Server 2008
>
> For the short term we created a share on our NetApp NAS box and have setup
> windows backup to run every
> Friday in the early evening. We do a full backup of the Netapp on Friday
> nights. We are also running
> the regular Legato client on the 2008 machines so that individual files are
> backed up. Hopefully this
> will get us along until March.
>
> ----
> Matthew Huff | One Manhattanville Rd
> OTA Management LLC | Purchase, NY 10577
> http://www.ox.com | Phone: 914-460-4039
> aim: matthewbhuff | Fax: 914-460-4139
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
> On Behalf Of Joey Admin
> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 5:29 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] DR enabled backup of Windows Server 2008
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm working on this issue with Server 2008, that it's not possible to do DR
> restore with NetWorker alone. EMC is now recommending to use the Windows
> Server Backup utility to create an image of drive C: to be used in DR
> purposes.
>
> How are you solving this? Are you using the savepnpc method described in
> the NetWorker procedure generator? I find it almost unusable because it
> will create an image of the entire drive C:
>
> Does anyone here know if it's enough to only have the systemstate backup?
> It can be created with this command:
>
> wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backuptarget:<path>
>
> I would be very interested in knowing how other organizations are solving
> this and how it's working.
>
> Joey
>
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