Re: Disaster Recovery with NTBackup

Hi Helen,

Yes, you need to reinstall the base OS (Windows 2003) and then Windows 2003
SP1 if Sp1 was installed when the backup was made. Then you should be able
to restore the rest from backup. Windows 2003 must be at the same SP level
as when the NTbackup was created.

Not sure why that link you provided is out of date. Try this one...

Backing Up and Restoring Windows Small Business Server 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=487736f8-f6f5-436d-a82d-0c8d66e2a634&DisplayLang=en

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Merv Porter [SBS MVP]
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"Helen Mooc" <hmooc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all,

I am at the point of testing out a disaster recovery scenario right now.
Note my test server is exact copy of the production copy, therefore I
don't expect any hardware conflicts. I made a normal backup of the small
business server excluding info store but include Storage Group (which is
shown in the .bkf file). After following the link below to the "t", I got
to the step 18 and rebooted the server.

http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/support/articles/backup_restore_sbs2003.mspx

Now I am getting this stop error upon reboot:

"Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
<Windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe. Please re-install a copy of the
above file"

I have try rebooting and select "the last known good option" but obviously
it does not work since the all the OS files have changed from the restore.

Could it be because I did not install the SBS service pack, but it was not
mentioned in the link? I did not complete the entire install and there's
a lot programs such an antivirus scan, register hacking I did to increase
info store size etc done of the production server. Could the omissions of
some of the steps in the production server be somewhat of the cause of the
problem in question?

Any assistance is appreciated.

Helen



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