Re: Desperate cry for help (Disater recovery)
- From: "Bill Swan" <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 19:54:31 +0100
Hi Luis, sorry I always find a resore is frought with probs and I go fo a
new install and add exchange data back in, believe me it is quicker. See my
previous post.. sorry another reinstall.
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"Luis" <a@xxx> wrote in message
news:uPImJ2XhFHA.1248@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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