Re: restoring friends network best practice

Well, the size of the partition *may* matter. You need to make sure that
each is at least as large as the previous one (or at least large enough to
hold the restored data). Now would be a good time increase the system
partition size to something around 30-50 GB, if you have enough room on the
new drive.

You will also need any additional required drivers on a floppy disk (e.g.,
special SCSI controllers, etc.) when you do the base Windows 2003 install.
Using the Dell Server Assistant CD to reinstall the base OS should take care
of this need.

Again, one of the important keys to a successful restore is to bring the
Windows 2003 base install up to the same SP level as it was when the backup
was made. If you don't do this, you may end up with a blue screen after the
restore. I haven't found a reliable way to determine this from the data on
the original drive, even if you could get it to stop rebooting. So, if you
know it had Windows 2003 SP2, bring the base install up to that SP before
you attempt any of the restore. If you're not sure, start with Windows 2003
SP1, run through the System State restore and see what happens when you
reboot after the restore.

--
Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]
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"jaredean" <junk@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:de48g3lcm18s1adiaj8plqi1k0cokdad60@xxxxxxxxxx
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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