Re: restoring friends network best practice

thank you so much for this reply...it is going to be helpful tonight
when i'm up all night making sure they are good to go in the morning
:)

if you can think of anything else i will need to be aware of, i would
love to hear it...i remember having to do the registry hack for the
Rev Drive when setting the server up and know i had 2 partitions (C
and D) -- so, i will do the same this time...i'm assuming that the
size of the partitions wont matter since the replacement drive is
larger than the original...

jared




On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 17:47:19 -0400, "Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]"
<mwport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

OK. Assuming he used the SBS Backup wizard to do the backups, you should be
able to recover by doing a complete restore (including System State) from
the Rev drive tapes.

Now, one of the problems is that you may not know how the server's hard
drive was partitioned, so you might want to see if you can get the server to
stop rebooting so you can take a look at the hard drive structure (maybe in
Safe Mode) or by booting from something like a Bart PE CD.

You will need to install the base Windows 2003 from SBS CD1 and then bring
the server up to same SP (service Pack) level as it was when the backup was
performed.

You may also need to tweak the registry for access to the REV drive after
the base Windows 2003 install.

SBS Backup Configuration Wizard does not let you select "Removable Media" as
a backup target location
http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2006/08/29/452501.aspx

Once you have the new hard drive paritioned and able to see the REV drive,
you can use the following document to restore the SBS server (assuming that
the backup does not contain corrupt data):

Backing Up and Restoring Windows Small Business Server 2003
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=487736F8-F6F5-436D-A82D-0C8D66E2A634&displaylang=en

When successful, the workstations should not know that the server
motherboard has been changed and all should be well.
.

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