Re: Disaster Recovery with NTBackup

Merv,

Here is what's happen with the SECOND try with restoring the NTbackup.bks I
made from the SBS onto a test server which is exact model as the production
server. I reinstalled Windows 2003 with CD1. The SBS was installed on C
partition. D drive is for Exchange and E is for couple of the big folders
which is irrelevant at this stage. I did not continue with the installed of
Exchange as per the guide below.



According to the suggestions per link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=487736f8-f6f5-436d-a82d-0c8d66e2a634&DisplayLang=en; I
updated the OS with the following to bring it up to the Service Pack as what's
appearing on the production server. To bring it up to the same SP as
production server, I followed this link from MS.



http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/0/f/e0fee8ce-768d-41c0-8871-9bc48e0b3fc3/ToDownLoadFilesandReadInstructions.htm



To sum it up, it lets me install Windows 2003 SP 1, Windows SharePoint
Services 2.0 Service Pack 1; but not Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 1
(because it said I don't have Exchange 2003 install on the server); Windows
XP SP2 for Client Deployment but NOT Windows Small Business Server 2003
Service Pack 1 (I got this error when trying to install it "The
/UattendFile switch can only be used on a domain controller running Windows
2000 server SP 1, on a computer that is a member of a domain).



Should I move on with the restore despite of the errors? It is such pain to
exchange the original CDs for the ones wit the SP on it. I have try
contacting the vendor I purchased from but I have not heard back from them
after leaving voicemails on the sale tech and his manager phone.



Thanks,

Helen



"Helen Mooc" <hmooc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank for your help Merv!!! I really appreciated. OK I am going to run a
full back up tonight using SBSbackup and try again with the restore
tomorrow. You might hear from me again later this week.

Cheers,
Helen

"Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]" <mwport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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And please use the SBS Backup Wizard to configure your backups and do a
FULL backup of your entire server (via Volume Shadow Copy). Yes, it may
seem redundant (maybe even wasteful) because it backs up Exchange twice,
but just let SBS have it's head and you'll be a lot happier.

--
Merv Porter [SBS MVP]
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"Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]" <mwport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.

--
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

--
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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