Re: Restore - Disaster Recovery

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From: Les Connor [SBS Community Member] (les.connor_at_DEL.cfive.ca)
Date: 11/12/04 

Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:08:25 -0600

Hi Ian,

In NTbackup, click on the Restore and Manage Media tab, then on Tools |
Catalogue a backup file.

You should be able to select your device, the tape, and a catalogue will be
built. 

-- 
Les Connor [SBS Community Member]
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SBS Rocks !
"Ian" <Ian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:AF402B0E-B30E-4582-BBDE-D8B4B0483446@microsoft.com...
>I have recently purchased small business server 2003, it's all installed,
> user accounts, internet, email etc all configured and working and no
> particular errors in the event logs
>
> I now come to disaster recovery planning and at the simplest level have 
> used
> the backup wizard to create my daily system backups which I assume take 
> care
> of everything I need to be concerned about. The backups have been running 
> all
> week and are reported to have run successfully.
>
> Following the Microsoft document "Backing Up and Restorubng Windows Small
> Business Server 2003" published September 2004 version 3 I have set about
> testing a full system recovery.
>
> I follow the procedure to reinstall the operating system from CD1, 
> deleting
> and recreating my hdd partitions at the point of installation, and all 
> goes
> well until ....
>
> ... I cancel the Small Business Server Setup at the appropriate point in 
> the
> procedure, insert my backup tape, run ntbackup, expecting then to be able 
> to
> fully restore my system, data, active directory, exchange etc, etc but
> although my tape is recognised and it has the correct media created date
> there does not appear to be a catalog from which to select the appropriate
> check boxes.
>
> If I right click on the media I thought I might be able to create a
> catalogue but after rewinding the tape I receive a message telling me that
> the media cannot be mounted because the drive is already in use.
>
> Clearly I'm going wrong somewhere, but where !!!!
>
> Any thoughts, recommendations or pointers to a solution would be very much
> appreciated

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