Re: Another disaster recovery exercise (but not yet)...

In article <eGUoQPrIGHA.1192@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> Duncan,
>
> I could probably take some time to review the good and bad things you
> described that you did, but I think the answer you are looking for is that
> you need to boot in DSRM mode, go into the Services and change the account
> to local system service. That will allow the Backup Exec services to operate
> in DSRM mode. (they don't startup in DSRM mode because by default they are
> domain accounts and you don't have a DC operating in this condition,
> therefore they can't be authenticated and fail.

OK, first restore failed - Event Log (s?) full. It froze the restore.
Only 12 minutes in though.

Ended up rebooting (DSRM again) (hey the Desktop's looking good already
:), set event logs to overwrite, starting the restore again, 250Mb/min,
about 2 hours to go.

--
Duncan
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