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

Hi Mike:

Seems you have started to run out of air speed and altitude. I feel for
you, but not sure what anyone can do for you at this point.

I think a nights sleep and a more mainstream and supported approach might
help your peace of mind and your company's server.

If you have the original configuration intact on a spare hard drive that you
can put it all back like it was until you can develop a different plan, that
would be best, IMO. Your original posts said your server was not behaving
perfectly, but that it was not falling over either.

If you have a known good backup that you could restore to the same or
different hard drives, that would be the second best thing.

If you have neither, but have the data intact, you could simply start over
with a fresh install and put back the data. PITA, but that may be your best
shot.

--
Larry


"Mike_in_Nebraska" <mike_webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Feb 15, 8:01 am, Jim Behning SBS MVP
<jimbehn...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:30:59 -0800 (PST), Mike_in_Nebraska





<mike_w...@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.- Hide quoted text -

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Here it is a bit over 50 hours (!) into this recovery. Looking at
BE's Help file and Symantec's KB, plus an SBS Advanced Admin book I
picked up, I'm at the point of rebooting and pressing F8 when it
appears during the boot process to then choose DSRM.
Well.....I've rebooted 5 times now and never saw it, nor did the
server respond when I pressed F8 over and over during the boot-ups.
I'm booting into Windows now to see if the Dell help files say
anything. I've got a Dell PowerEdge 2800; any ideas out there??

Mike


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