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

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:30:59 -0800 (PST), Mike_in_Nebraska
<mike_webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Feb 15, 7:24 am, Jim Behning SBS MVP
<jimbehn...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:30:58 -0800 (PST), Mike_in_Nebraska





<mike_w...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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

I had to start the server in Directory Services Restore mode. To get
to DSR you F8 when the server is booting. I discovered that my USB
drive was not visible in DSR so I had to start in normal mode, copy my
backup file off the USB drive to space on my D partiton and then
restore from that when I got back in to DSR mode. That was one of a
few time burning adventures. No idea if BE is visible from DSR. I
think I recall that I saw the tape drive is DSR though.- Hide quoted text -

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Many thanks!
I'm still at it - re-installing SBS one more time and am in the middle
of SP1 installs and reboots. Your leson-learned about how to get to
DSR will save me time - thanks again!

Mike
Make sure you are at the exact same SP before you start your DSR. If
you were at SP2 then you need to get to SP2.
.

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