Re: SBS Recovery from dead server
- From: "Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]" <mwport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:36:51 -0400
What happens if you unplug the external and/or internal NIC(s) before
booting? Does this let you get to the desktop?
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Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]
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"Sam W" <sam312@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Grey Lancaster [SBS ROCKS Family Member] wrote:
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.
Yesterday morning the server locked up which required a reset. After more
than 40 minutes of waiting, the machine would just hang at "Applying
Settings" before the log in screen. Some users could access the file
shares, others could not. Exchange was not operational. The heart of the
problem is the motherboard is dying. We can not access the BIOS or the
RAID cards BIOS because at this stage the keyboard is locked up. We tried
different keyboards, both PS2 and USB with no luck.
The RAID card has been replaced via Adaptec advanced RMA. My thinking now
is to use that card in another machine and boot the SBS. I think right now
the primary concern is accessing Exchange mailboxes. Recreating new use
accounts or having to rejoin computers to a new domain, etc.. is the
lowest of priorities right now.
My concern is that if all we have is just files, meaning the machine can
not be booted anywhere (the old SBS) then AD restore looks like a very
tough job. Now if it was something as simple as taking the files and
attaching them a la taking a backup copy of a SQL db and attaching it,
then this would be simple. But user accounts are one thing, what concerns
me is the overall integration of AD in so many components.
One one sense, it may very well be ideal to do a fresh install, as the
original SBS was getting loaded with too much crap. Every *#(@ software
for accounting, marketing, etc.. people wanted to install there. I could
see the point that this was the only server that had hardware RAID, but
other solutions were there, just nobody wanted to listen :). So I guess
what I am saying is a new install is not the worst case as long as we can
get Exchange up quickly for users to access their mail and cals.
One last question, for future use. Is it possible to sync AD with any LDAP
server? By this I mean to populate OpenLDAP with AD, and then should the
need arise reverse? Basically I am trying to think of ways that a failover
method could be enacted with SBS, which of course does not allow secondary
DCs.
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