Re: backup solution for sbs?
From: Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] (sbradcpa_at_pacbell.net)
Date: 07/25/04
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Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 21:51:27 -0700
The "bare metal" in SBS 2003 is not like the SBS 2000. Just ask Wayne
who toasted his SBS 2003. It's not quite the same. System state is
backed up.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/d/8/bd8e1a40-d202-429a-8eb7-26300d62bcc9/BKU_BkupRstr.doc
Restoring Your Server
After a system failure or other disaster, you can restore your server
from your latest successful backup. In the event of a software failure,
you can restore to the same computer or you can restore to new hardware.
You can also restore individual files and e-mail messages if they were
permanently deleted.
WARNING
If you are restoring to a different computer than that which was
originally running Windows Small Business Server 2003, make sure that
the following items are the same on the original and the new computer:
• SCSI controller. You can restore to a computer that has an IDE
controller if the original computer had SCSI.
• Motherboard chip set.
• Number of processors.
• Hard disk size. The new computer’s hard disk should contain matching
volumes the same size or larger than those on the original computer.
• Drive letter of the boot partition.
We recommend restoring to the same brand and model of the original
computer.
Important
If you upgraded your server from Small Business Server 2000, you need to
create a floppy disk to use when you boot from the CD before you begin
the restore. To create the disk, copy Winnt.sif and Winnt.bat from the
\SBSSUPPORT\UpgradeRestore folder on Windows Small Business Server 2003
Disc 3 to a floppy disk. In Winnt.sif, be sure that TargetPath under
[Unattended] is set to the same installation directory used before the
restore. The default in Small Business Server 2000 is TargetPath=Winnt.
In Winnt.bat, be sure that the drive letter is the same as the drive
letter of your CD drive. The default is D:\.
Important
Before restoring your server, disconnect any external disk drives, such
as USB or IEEE 1394 drives, from the server.
In the event of a system failure, use the following procedures to
restore your server from the latest successful backup. You must perform
the following tasks in order:
• Install the operating system.
• Restore the server from backup media.
• Verify the success of the restore and rejoin client computers to the
network.
To install the operating system
Important
It is recommended that you do not use this procedure to migrate the
operating system to new hardware, because having both the original
hardware and the new hardware on the network can cause name-resolution
conflicts, network-service conflicts, and other problems.
1. If you did not upgrade from Small Business Server 2000, turn on the
computer and insert the Windows Small Business Server 2003 Disc 1 or the
DVD (if available) into the drive. When a message appears prompting you
to boot from the CD, press any key.
-Or-
If you upgraded from Small Business Server 2000, ensure that the
computer BIOS is set to boot from CD (for information about how to do
this, see the documentation from your computer manufacturer). Insert the
floppy disk into the floppy disk drive and the Windows Small Business
Server 2003 Disc 1 into the CD drive, and then turn on the computer.
When a message appears prompting you to boot from the CD, press any key.
2. When the Welcome to Setup page appears, press ENTER.
3. On the Windows Licensing page, read the agreement, and then press F8.
4. Select the partition where you want to restore your operating system.
If you have not yet partitioned your disk drive, you must do so at this
time. Follow the instructions in the wizard.
Note
The partition to which you restore your operating system must have the
same drive letter as it did prior to the restore.
5. Select NTFS as the file system for the partition.
Setup copies temporary files to a Windows installation folder on your
computer. This takes a few minutes. After copying is complete, Setup
restarts your computer, and the Installing Windows portion of the
operating system installation begins.
6. On the Regional and Language Options page, customize your regional
and language options if necessary.
7. On the Personalize Your Software page, enter the information you want
for each field.
8. On the Your Product Key page, enter your product key.
9. On the Computer Name and Administrator Password page, enter the same
administrator password that you used previously.
Note
It is strongly recommended that you enter a standard computer name and
an administrator password (do not leave these fields blank). A standard
computer name is a unique name of up to 15 characters: A-Z, a-z, 0-9,
and the hyphen (-).
10. On the Date and Time Settings page, verify the information.
The Finalizing Windows portion of the operating system installation
begins. After the operating system is installed, your computer restarts.
To restore the server from backup media
1. As soon as the computer restarts, press F8 to open the Windows
Advanced Options Menu.
Note
If a logon screen appears before the Windows Advanced Options Menu
appears, log on using the administrator account, cancel any setup
screens that appear, and restart the computer. Hold down F8 while the
computer restarts to ensure that you get the Windows Advanced Options Menu.
2. Select Directory Services Restore Mode (Windows Domain Controllers Only).
3. Log on by using the administrator password. In the Safe Mode dialog
box, click OK.
Important
If you have external disk drives, click Start, click Administrative
Tools, click Disk Management, and then connect your drives. Using Disk
Management, configure your drives exactly as they were previous to the
restore. After your drives are configured, restart your computer. As
soon as the computer restarts, press F8 again to open the Windows
Advanced Options Menu, and then select Directory Services Restore Mode
(Windows Domain Controllers Only).
4. Make sure that the backup media is accessible to the system.
5. Click Start, click Run, and then type ntbackup to open the Backup
Utility.
If you backed up to tape and the Backup Utility does not recognize the
tape, the Recognizable Media Found dialog box appears. In the Action
dialog box, select Allow Backup Utility to use the media.
6. When the wizard starts, on the Welcome page, click Advanced Mode.
7. On the Backup Utility menu, click Tools, click Options, and then
click the Restore tab.
8. Select Always replace the file on my computer, and then click OK.
9. On the Restore and Manage Media tab, double-click the tape or file
corresponding to your last full backup.
If you are restoring from tape, click the tape name to expand and select
the date corresponding to the last successful backup.
If you are restoring from disk or from a network share, right-click File
in the navigation pane, click Catalog File, type the path or browse to
your backup file, double-click the file, and then click OK.
Note
If you are restoring from a network share, make sure that the IP address
of the server you are restoring to and the computer where the network
share is located are in the same address range. For example, set the
server’s IP address to 192.168.1.1 and the IP address of the computer
where the network share is located to 192.168.1.100. When the restore is
complete, change the client computer’s TCP/IP settings to obtain an IP
address automatically. You need to authenticate to the computer where
the network share is located using the Local Administrator account on
the computer where the network share is located.
10. To restore your hard disks and system state, select the check boxes
for the drives you want to restore and the system state. Do not check
Microsoft Information Store.
Caution
Do not select any drives that were not corrupted or formatted for
restoring. Only select the drives that you want to restore, because if
you restore a working drive, you lose any new data created on the drive
after the backup took place.
Note
Exchange Server and all its data are restored from the drive or drives
on which they are installed.
If you double-click the drives, an estimated completion time for the
restore is displayed during the restore.
11. Under Restore files to, make sure that Original location is selected.
12. On the Restore and Manage Media tab, click Start Restore.
13. In the Warning dialog box, click OK.
14. In the Confirm Restore dialog box, click Advanced. On the Advanced
Restore Options page, ensure that the following four check boxes are
selected:
• Restore security settings.
• Restore junction points, and restore file and folder data under
junction points to the original location.
• When restoring replicated data sets, mark the restored data as the
primary data for all replicas.
• Preserve existing volume mount points.
15. Click OK, and then click OK again.
The server restore begins. This might take several hours depending on
the amount of data.
16. When the restore is complete, click Report to verify that the system
state and all files were recovered.
There might be a few files for which the Backup Utility was unable to
set the short file name. The files in the following list will not affect
the functionality of the system if the short file names are not set:
• \Documents and Settings\Administrator\Recent\*
• \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto\*
• \WINDOWS\PCHEALTH\HELPCTR\DataColl\*
• \WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\History\*
Important
If files not in the preceding list have short file names that cannot be
set, your system may not function correctly. To avoid this problem,
ensure that the drives you restored were formatted correctly before
restoring.
17. Remove the operating system CD from the CD drive.
18. Close the Backup Utility, reboot your server, and then log on.
Important
If you are restoring to different hardware, some services might fail due
to hardware differences. Windows needs to detect all of the devices on
the system, which can take several hours. Log on to the server to begin
this process. After all device drivers have been installed, restart the
server.
If you are restoring to the same hardware, verify that no services set
to start automatically failed to start after the server restarted. If
any services did not start, you need to manually restart them. After the
server has restarted, some devices might need to be detected again by
Windows. If the following message appears, click Yes. Make sure that no
services failed after the reboot.
Windows has finished installing new devices. The software that supports
your device requires that you restart your computer. You must restart
your computer before the new settings will take effect. Do you want to
restart your computer now?
Note
After you restart your computer, there may be a Continue Setup icon on
your desktop. Delete this icon if it is present.
19. After your computer restarts, if you are restoring to hardware that
has different network adapters, you must verify the IP address of each
card in the system and change it, if necessary, by using the following
procedure:
a. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Network
Connections.
b. Right-click a network connection, and choose Properties.
c. Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and then click Properties.
d. For an internal network adapter, change the IP address to the exact
IP address it had before the backup. In the IP address dialog box, type
the IP address it had before the backup. In the Subnet mask dialog box,
type your subnet mask (for example, 255.255.255.0). Leave the Default
gateway dialog box blank, and in the Preferred DNS Server dialog box,
type the IP address of the server.
Note
If the IP address that the server had before the backup is not
available, you can look it up in DNS Management. Click Start, click
Administrative Tools, and then click DNS. In the dnsmgmt console, expand
the server name, expand Forward Lookup Zones and then select the
internal domain. In the details pane, the server name appears with the
IP address.
For an external network adapter, if it had a static IP address, you need
to change the address. If the adapter had a dynamic IP address or if you
have only one network adapter, you do not need to change the address. To
change the IP address, consult your Internet service provider (ISP) for
its static IP settings. In the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties
page, type the IP settings that your ISP provides.
e. Click Start, click Server Management and then click Internet and
E-mail. Click Connect to the Internet and follow the instructions in the
Configure Email & Internet Connection Wizard.
20. On the server, click Start, and then click Run. In the Open box,
type %sbsprogramdir%\backup\prestore.exe, and then click OK. This will
enable Power Users to add users after the restore.
21. Click Start, click Control Panel, double-click Scheduled Tasks,
select all the ShadowCopyVolume tasks, and press Delete to delete these
tasks.
To re-enable retention of previous versions of files, click Start, click
Server Management, click Backup, and then click Modify Storage for
Deleted Files and E-mail. Click the check boxes on the Storage
Allocation for Deleted Files and E-mail page.
22. If you chose to exclude client applications from the backup, click
Start, click Control Panel, click Add or Remove Programs, select Windows
Small Business Server 2003, and then select Change/Remove. Follow the
on-screen instructions to reinstall your applications. Any other items
that you chose to exclude from the backup may need to be reinstalled as
well.
23. On the client computer, click Start, click Run, and then type cmd to
open a command prompt. At the command prompt, type ipconfig /renew to
reestablish a network connection. Restarting client computers also
reestablishes a connection to the restored server.
Important
If you are restoring to new hardware, you must verify that your licenses
are valid. Click Start, click Server Management and then click on the
licensing snap-in. If your licenses do not appear in the console, move
the licenses to the new hardware by clicking Transfer Licenses and
entering your license codes.
To verify the success of the restore
Perform the following tasks to ensure that the restore was successful:
1. Open Server Management, and then confirm that the state of your users
and computers is the same as it was prior to the restore.
2. Make sure that you can connect to the Internet.
3. Open http://Companyweb/ and make sure that the site appears.
4. Send and receive e-mail.
If you are unable to confirm the success of the restore, click Start,
click Server Management, click the Information Center link, and then
click Community Website or Technical Support to get information about
your problem.
Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:
> root wrote:
>
>>"Michael" <michael@mikeymall.com> wrote in message
>>news:%23j%23j5gfcEHA.3944@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>
>>>i see...i was always under the impression that the sbs backup is
>>>only mainly for "data" backup... thus if anything goes wrong, i
>>>still have to manually reinstall sbs2003 and restore the data files.
>>>
>>>thanks, i'll try out the backup then
>>
>>Wait. I don't think that SBS's backup does bare metal restore so you
>>have to reinstall the OS. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
>
>
> You're correct AFAIK.
>
>>>"Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]"
>>><sbradcpa@pacbell.net> wrote in message
>>>news:uETp6JfcEHA.2812@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>>>
>>>>Yes... but you think this occurs often or something? ;-)
>>>>
>>>>Michael wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>does the sbs backup allow you to backup the system drives as well?
>>>>>as in windows boot parititon and system data? 'Coz i need to
>>>>>backup the
>>
>>exact
>>
>>>same
>>>
>>>>>system drives to another drive. Thus when this server goes down
>>>>>with data in windows files getting corrupted, i can quickly
>>>>>restore it with that backup.
>>>>>
>>>>>Instead of reinstalling the windows and just restoring the data
>>>>>files and configurations files?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>"Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]"
>>>>><sbradcpa@pacbell.net> wrote in message
>>>>>news:uMb0CCfcEHA.2408@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Why not the built in ntbackup?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Michael wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>is there any other backup software that does online backup for
>>>>>>>sbs2003?
>>>>>
>>>>>I
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>need a realtime backup software where it can even backup the
>>>>>>>system
>>>>>
>>>>>drives?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>Something very similar to GHOST but ghost require u to have a
>>>>>>>downtime
>>>>>
>>>>>to
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>actually backup the system drives. Are there any other backup
>>>>>>>solution
>>>>>
>>>>>that
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>does not require a downtime?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>--
>>>>>>http://www.sbslinks.com/really.htm
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>http://www.sbslinks.com/really.htm
>
>
>
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