[Veritas-bu] Windows 2003 restore questions

[David Rock]

* French, Michael <Michael.French at savvis.net> [2004-08-25 13:52]:
> 	Site info:
> 
> 	Netbackup 4.5FP6
> 	Solaris 8 master and media servers
> 	Windows 2003 enterprise edition clients with 4.5FP6 nbu client installed
> 	No Veritas BMR server
> 
> 	We're having a problem at my company getting Netbackup to
> 	successfully restore a complete Windows 2003 server.  We have had
> 	several servers die recently and the restores have not worked as
> 	expected.  When the systems have died, we have installed a fresh
> 	version of the OS, put it on the network, left it in a workgroup,
> 	and installed the NBU client.  A full restore is done of the C:\
> 	drive and the system state from the last full backup and all of the
> 	diffs in between.  The server goes into a continual reboot cycle
> 	after the restore completes and we restart the server.  I've been
> 	doing some testing and have gotten it to work if I do the restore
> 	with just the last full backup image (C:\ and system state), reboot,
> 	then apply the diffs for C:\ and the latest system state.  I also
> 	used the command:
> 
> w2koption -restore -same_hardware 1
> 
> 	This command was used both before the restore started and after it
> 	completed.  At this point, it would successfully boot.  This seems
> 	pretty cumbersome.  How is everyone else out in NBU land doing this?
> 
> 	One other way I got this to work was to do a complete restore of
> 	C:\, full and diffs, with no system state, and then use a dump of
> 	the system state that was created by ntbackup.  The machine
> 	successfully boots at this point.

That looks pretty much like what we've had to do. Windows systems
traditionally do not like getting system data dumped on them. 

-- 
David Rock
david at graniteweb.com
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