Re: DR procedure per smallbizserver.net

ok this all seems to link in to the fact that the hardware is different,
particularly the NIC's. So now my question becomes one of, how do you do a
DR when the NIC's in particular are a different make etc, and where because
of the complete failure of the "old" server one would not have had the
opportunity to install loopback adaptors to hold the NIC settings. So now
after booting into safe mode after the DR, it installs the new drivers for
the new NIC's but hides the old NIC's. Fine, one can remove the old nics by
following the Magical M&M's article on this topic, but how do you migrate
the config and bindings of the old nic's to the new?

Thanks

Andrew
"Andrew Gericke" <amgerick@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:e7GRQDAWFHA.3532@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
>
> Just found something else, and very relevant to the problem, but do not
> know how to resolve it.
>
> While the NIC is visible under device manager, under "Network Connections"
> of control panel, there is nothing, not a single entry, and if I select
> Advanced... Advanced Settings, there is nothing either. Obviously since I
> no longer have a Local Area Connection, this is what is causing the huge
> speed/logon problem on booting to normal mode. How do I recreate the Local
> Area connection?
>
> Thanks
>
> Andrew
>
>
> "Andrew Gericke" <amgerick@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:uhZ$YJ%23VFHA.2928@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Hi Marina
>>
>> Thanks for that email. I am sure your advice is 100% correct here. After
>> approximately 8 hours, the server logon screen has now appeared and I can
>> type in the password etc. However, if I look at device manager
>> (admittedly, I must have missed this the first time around and didnt
>> check device manager as such, only allowed the system to install all the
>> new device drivers, being new hardware), the current and new NIC is
>> listed as "Intel.... Network Connection #2".
>>
>> I suspect thus that the system still thinks there is another network
>> connection somewhere, and has all the bindings messed up. Since the old
>> NIC is not in this test server, the control panel is not now showing
>> Network connection #1. How can I find this hidden device, remove it and
>> fix all the bindings?
>>
>> Any advice much appreciated.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Marina Roos [SBS-MVP]" <marina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>> message news:%23QgEza6VFHA.2684@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Hi Andrew,
>>>
>>> Did you read that article completely? Did you check device management
>>> after
>>> the first boot, checked for hidden devices, checked the network config
>>> etcetera? When booting takes such a long time, it almost always points
>>> to
>>> the network settings that got messed up a bit.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Marina Roos
>>> Microsoft SBS-MVP
>>> One of the Magical M&M's
>>> www.smallbizserver.net
>>> Take part in SBS forum:
>>> http://www.smallbizserver.net/Default.aspx?tabid=53
>>>
>>> "Andrew Gericke" <amgerick@xxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
>>> news:OXUO1Y4VFHA.1148@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> We recently lost the system partition off the drive of our SBS2003.
>>>> Fortunately we were able to recover the partition using a partition
>>> utility
>>>> app. However, before we did we tried to do a restore from our backups
>>>> (having used ArcServe exclusively up to that point), but concluded that
>>>> because of our method of backup we were completely ill prepared for a
>>>> DR
>>>> situation.
>>>>
>>>> I have in the last two days decided to follow the backup and DR
>>>> procedure
>>>> from the smallbizserver.net website. The whole DR seems to have worked
>>> fine,
>>>> right up to the last sentence. The last sentence says that the machine
>>> might
>>>> take some time to come up after booting to normal mode the first time
>>> (this
>>>> after first booting to safe mode to allow the installation of all the
>>>> new
>>>> device drivers - new hardware for this test). Fine, I allowed the
>>>> machine
>>> to
>>>> just sit on the dialoge "preparing network connections" through the
>>>> night,
>>>> and sure enough, trhis morning I was on the logon screen. however after
>>>> logging on I noticed from services that the Exchange store and various
>>> other
>>>> services had not started. So I figured I would just do another reboot.
>>>> Now
>>> I
>>>> am sitting with the "preparing network connections" message on the
>>>> screen
>>>> again, and it has been there for the last hour. What am I doing wrong,
>>> since
>>>> I can't imagine that everytime I reboot I have to wait 3 or 4 hours
>>>> before
>>> I
>>>> can logon after doing a DR?
>>>>
>>>> Also, the procedure for the DR says "do not select the hive containing
>>>> you
>>>> exchange server backup". When does the exchange store (priv and pub)
>>>> get
>>>> restored then? Do I still need to go and do a restore of the store's
>>>> once
>>> I
>>>> get this machine to boot, or has that happened through the file restore
>>>> process?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the help
>>>>
>>>> Andrew
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>


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