Re: Backups, ASR and Disastor Planning



Hi Chris:

The official MS document and real world experience don't differ much.
Install the Windows Portion of SBS, stop, add the Service Pack needed to
bring your Windows to previous levels, and restore from your backup.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/d/8/bd8e1a40-d202-429a-8eb7-26300d62bcc9/BKU_BkupRstr.doc

Or, image with one of the commercial / freeware products.

--

Larry


"Chris White" <ChrisWhite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all,

I am just completing my disaster recovery routine for the server room in
case i'm not around. Its bad enough being the one and only IT guy in this
company but I need to make a plan for disaster recovery should anything
happen when i'm away.

Now, the following is currently in place...

SBS2003 Full Backup to Local Hard Disk x 3 (3 Days Worth of Full Backups)
Backup File Copied to Seperate Backup Server and Taken Offsite.

However, the one thing that always made me curious was the ASR. How to
properly implement this into the design and, in the event of a total HDD
failure on the SBS Operating System HDD, how to go about getting it all
back
up and running.

Whats the best steps to recovery assuming the following...

1. The SBS HDD has totally died and is down completely.
2. Backups are available on seperate local HDD installed in SBS Server

Cheers and thanks in advance.

--
Chris White
United Kingdom


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