Michael,
You should be able to recover the Wink8 server only if you do not have
to rebuild the OS. If you have to rebuild the OS then you will have to
recover from an image backup made of the server PRIOR to performing the
BMR recovery. In Win2k8, Microsoft only supports the recovery of the OS
back to same OS instance, meaning that you cannot rebuild the OS and
then recover as was the case with Win2k and win2k3. EMC is coming out
with NW7.6sp2 which will support BMR of Win2k8. In the meantime you will
need to use the Microsoft tool Windows server backup (WSB) to create an
image of the OS and then you will be able to do a BMR of a win2k8
server. See below.
Issue:
Disaster recovery of Windows 2008 servers using Networker client may
fail, when recovery is performed after doing a fresh Install of the
operating system
Microsoft does not support performing system state recovery to a
different OS instance than the original, i.e. you cannot perform a
disaster recovery from a backup, after performing a new OS install.
Recovery of system state is supported only to the Original OS instance.
In scenario where the OS is corrupt either due to a hardware failure or
software corruption, the only supported method of recovery is to perform
a bare metal recovery. As Networker client currently does not support a
bare metal recovery for Windows 2008, customers will need to generate a
recoverable system state of their Windows 2008 servers using Windows
Server Backup to enable them to perform a disaster recovery of their
Windows 2008 servers in the event of a failure which leaves the system
unbootable and a recovery from a backup is required.
For more information on Microsoft's support statements for Windows
Server 2008 system state recoveries, including the
supported/non-supported scenarios and recommendations for various
recovery scenarios for windows machines see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/249694.
Wilbur Mason
WTI- Global Data Protection Team
Email: wilbur.mason AT pfizer DOT com
Tel: (212) 733-2487
-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Michael Leone
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:21 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Recovering a Win2008 client using NW 7.5.2
I need to recover a Win2008 (not R2) client completely (i.e., a disaster
recovery sort of recovery). The backup of this client specifies a
saveset
of ALL. Yet when I go to do the recover, I only see
VSS SYSTEM BOOT:
VSS SYSTEM SERVICES:
Of the VSS entries (I do see the drives, C: and D:) as choices to click
on. Where are the other system components - VSS BOOT:, VSS FILESET:, VSS
USER DATA:? I didn't see any errors on the backup job.
* admnsam004:ALL savefs admnsam004: succeeded.
admnsam004: VSS SYSTEM FILESET:\ level=full, 1 KB 00:00:05
1
file
admnsam004: VSS OTHER:\ level=full, 1 KB 00:00:03
1
file
admnsam004: VSS USER DATA:\ level=full, 1 KB 00:00:03
1
file
admnsam004: VSS SYSTEM SERVICES:\ level=full, 26 MB 00:00:27
11
files
* admnsam004:VSS SYSTEM BOOT:\ VSS SYSTEM BOOT: VSS Writer: ASR Writer
is
not supported, ignoring it.
admnsam004: VSS SYSTEM BOOT:\ level=full, 58 MB 00:00:27
16
files
admnsam004: D:\ level=full, 10 GB 00:22:03
52595
files
admnsam004: C:\ level=full, 10 GB 00:20:58
66342
files
I can see that they are (probably) empty, being only 1 K in size, but
shouldn't there be entry for it, regardless?
This client is a VM. I made a new VM, same name and IP address;
installed
Win2008 (but didn't run any updates); installed Networker; and went to
do
a restore, clicking on the client name, so I would get everything, I
sincerely hope this works right, with Win2008 and NW 7.5.2 ... otherwise
my dept mate is going to be really upset with me, if he has to rebuild
this Sametime server from scratch ....
--
Michael Leone
Network Administrator, ISM
Philadelphia Housing Authority
2500 Jackson St
Philadelphia, PA 19145
Tel: 215-684-4180
Cell: 215-252-0143
<mailto:michael.leone AT pha.phila DOT gov>
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