Re: Disaster Recovery with NTBackup

All you should need to do is install the Windows 2003 OS (SBS 2003 CD1) and
then make sure Win2K3 SP1 is applied. Of course, if you need RAID (or any
other special drivers), install them as you install the Windows OS. You
also need to make sure that your partitions are the same size as on your
original install. Once this is done, all your other apps (Exchange,
Sharepoint, Line of Business, etc.) along with their upgraded SP levels
reside on the backup tape (or drive). As long as the base OS and SP level
are the same as what's on the backup tape, the restored apps will
re-integrate with the Windows OS. Basically, your restore will not attempt
to restore any of the base Win2K3 OS since it's already on the drive.
However, it will restore the bits (like sercurity updates) to the level at
which they were when you made the backup.

The reason you need to install the base Win2K3 server OS is that it has
NTBackup integrated into it and you need NTbackup to restorem your backup.
And, as mentioned before, you need to be at the same Win2K3 server SP level
as when the backup was made because NTBackup was tweaked (modified) by
Microsoft with the release of SP1.

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Merv Porter [SBS MVP]
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"Helen Mooc" <hmooc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Also in step 12 of the article, it mention installing all the SP. Does
that include Exchange SP 1 and SP 2 eventhough I did not completed the
installation with CD 2 and CD 3.

Thanks,
Helen

"Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]" <mwport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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Not sure why that link you provided is out of date.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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