Re: Desperate cry for help (Disater recovery)

After reading the following document :

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/techinfo/administration/default.mspx

I proceeded to do the restore:

1.- Hardware identical to the want where the backup was taken on July 8th,
at 11: PM. Crash occurred on July 9 at 9 AM.
2.- Installed SBS from MSDN DVD. (same as original installation, same key).
After installation of server completed, I cancelled setup as recomended by
the document.
3.- Installed the same drivers as the original installation
4.- Ran Windows update and brought the system up-to-date (original box ran
windows update every night)
5.- Ran NTBackup, Restore in advanced mode, ovrwrite all fles, restore
security,etc, etc as recommended by the document.
6.- Checked the errors of backup (missing short names) and all were expected
as per the document.

After rebooting the computer, it asked me to activate windows, which I did.
When finally logged onto to the box, all the files were there, but the
domain was not restored. Instead now it says WORKGROUP. Companyweb is not
running. I can't access the user shared folders, since the SIDs are
different. Server Management does not exist. Exchange manager does not run.

Other applications that I had installed run fine. Others don't.

Any idea how can I have my sever back? I was so confident that having a full
backup every night would save me in case of desaster, but it seems it's much
more difficult than I thought.

Please help.

Luis


"Luis" <a@xxx> wrote in message
news:ubsNXAQhFHA.1948@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi folks,
>
> You guys and gals are my last resort. I have an SBS 2K3 box and this
> morning after a power outage that lasted ore than the UPS reserve time,
> the server wouldn't boot back up. I tried everything, tried recovery
> console, windows repair using the original CD but nothing helped.
>
> I have a full backup as of last night at 11:00 PM (created with SBS 2K3
> backup software) . It's a full backup of the C drive, where the system
> data is, including exchange database. Home user directories are on the D
> drive, which had no problems.
>
> I have tried restoring it on top of the original hard drive, onto a new
> hard drive, and nothing helps. there's no way I can have the domain
> controller back.
>
> This is not a production environment, but I do have an important exchange
> database for a couple of users that has items that go back to 1999 (email
> mostly)
>
> Could you please provide some guidance on how should I restore the backup
> so I can restore my server to a point where I can save the exchange
> database (at least!)
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Luis
>


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