Re: SBS Recovery from dead server

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I really think rejoing the computers is the least of your problems :(

You can not just drag AD from and old drive to a new drive. As you can see from the kb Les posted restores from tape really want to be to the same hardware.

What you can try to do is a full restore from tape, select overwrite all. When it boots it will blue screen. Then boot with disc one and do a repair. This may work. Or you can try to research any mods you might be able to do to the boot.ini file to get the restored box back up.

While waiting on your new box, you could go ahead and try restoring to as close a match as you can. Life will be much better if you can restore the tape and boot it. Then you can transfer AD to the new box using the swing method. If time and data are real critical I would also suggest taking a look at http://www.sbsmigration.com/migration-projects.php

What is wrong with your current server? Why will it not boot? How many users? If you build the new box with the same server and domain names, you should be able to mount exchange and reconnect the mailboxes after you create the users.

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"Sam W" <sam312@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Sv2dnYbxUdpOz4PbnZ2dnUVZ_vyunZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Grey Lancaster [SBS ROCKS Family Member] wrote:
without being able to boot the old server/OS to migrate the AD to a new doamin, you will just have to rebuild from scratch


So essentially backups are useless? We do have on tape and disk the files (AD and Exchange). So then the plan would be to do a fresh install and run AD/Exchange in recovery mode? I would be able to take the old OS drive that contains all the AD files and add that as a second drive to a new install. The problem is every Active Directory recovery guide seems to be centered around using NTBackup. Is there a solution to restoring the AD from just files copied to a temp space? Once we get AD up and going, I can see then we would just do a Exchange restore.

If the new SBS install uses the same domain name, do clients computers have to be re-joined?

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