Re: SBS2003 rebuild
- From: "SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" <not@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:12:24 +1000
SO, in fact, you do actually have a 'bad stripe' situation, that's PITA.
An ASR backup/restore is then more likely to succeed than imaging. Imaging
attempts will probably detect drive errors and fail. ASR will gather all
available information and write it to tape.
www.sbsmigration.com (do a search and see how rarely I promote Jeff's site)
would allow you to 'pull' the existing AD to another (possibly virtual)
server and then perform a 'Swing It!! back to existing/new hardware',
allowing you to reinitialise the array but maintain your current AD. It
might be worth a look.
"Robbie Niblock" <robbie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" <not@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'd perform both an ASR backup and a full system backup, then ASR restore
and then restore the rest. BUT, I'M CONFUSED.
You don't wish to image the system but you seem to be asking for a way to
restore it fully to it's current state, why not just image the sucker?
And as the 'stripe' on RAID 5 is held across all disks I'm not really
sure where you're going here either. If it's a faulty drive replace it
and rebuild the array. In this context the 'rebuild' takes the existing
data and rebuilds what is missing. If IBM are suggesting that a single
drive failure in a RAID5 array requires more drastic action I'd be
looking to replace the RAID controller (and possibly the server,
returning it for full refund as it is 'unfit for intended purpose').
"Robbie Niblock" <robbie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Our IBM x235 running ServeRAID 6 with 3 disks in a RAID 5 configuration
has started showing an error about a corrupt RAID stripe. The IBM
engineer has confirmed our thinking - that the array will need to be
rebuilt, meaning that the OS will have to be reinstalled.
We dont want to restore a disk image, but then again we don't want to
have to set everything up from scratch again. At present we use Arcserve
for backups, but it only backs up data (files and email).
Bearing in ming that the server is running fine at the moment -what is
the best method of backing up and restoring as much as possible - e.g.
Active Directory, Exchange options and data, directory structure and
permissions.
Thanks in advance.
Perhaps I shouldn't have used the word "rebuild". I need to factory reset
the array and create it again. There was a faulty physical disk some
months ago, but this was replaced with no down time.
Surely the end result (whether I image the server or do a full system
restore using the SBS backup) will be the same?
Also - if I do the system restore - do I have to load service pack 1 on
SBS before I restore?
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