Re: bare-metal restoration -- what should I know before I do it?

On Feb 14, 10:15 pm, "Les Connor [SBS MVP]" <les.con...@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
This is too painful to read, Mike :-(.

A bare metal restore starts by wiping the system drive and clean installing
the OS, not by massaging the existing installation so the older disks will
overwrite it.

And I'd never attempt a recovery with BE. I used to use BE, and when I
wanted a recoverable backup I used NTbackup.

That's all moot though. If you wanted to save the domain, but get a clean
installed SBS then Swing Migration is the way; I don't see you on that path
at all.

--
Les Connor [SBS MVP]
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Sorry for getting back to you late; I finally hit the lobby couch for
some sleep - managed to get 3 hours.
Woke to find that my latest Restore failed. It wants me to jump
through some extra hoops to restore the System State and the
Information Store. I found what I need to do in the BE Help file.
So .... back at it.

Got my fingers crossed, but being a realist that another hurdle is
going to pop up.

Mike

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