Len,

Whether this is applicable or not I don't know, however we have found
with w2k3 that in order to make a restore work that includes sys state
the target must be at the same build level as the data you have on your
backup. So if your data was of a w2k3 SP1 system then you need to build
the target as w2k3 SP1. If you had no SP's or were at SP2 you need to
build the target accordingly. I have not figured out whether this is a
function of the OS or NBU or both however we never had this to deal with
until we went to NBU6 and w2k3 sp1.

David Spearman
County of Henrico, Va.

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Len
Boyle
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 9:08 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] windows 2003 system state restore problem


Hello, One of our groups came up with a new problem with a windows 2003
server. They had a system that was corrupted and would not boot.

So they reinstalled windows
Did a system state and c drive restore.
They did this a few times working out that the system had to be on
c:\WINNT instead of C:\WINDOWS and  that they had to do the restore with
the client in a work group and not on the domain. So the client had been
joined to the domain and then changed to a workgroup.

The restore of the C-drive and System State finished with a return code
of zero? But after the reboot,  the client was not on the domain, the
SAM was not returned to the state that it was when the Netbackup full
backup was preformed. Also the Registry did not seemed to be replaced as
software that had been installed on the client did not show up.

It appears that Netbackup did his/her thing but windows did not with the
reboot.

Has anyone else seen this?
Have a fix?
Know how to trace or track windows logs for this problem?

Thanks Len Boyle


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