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

Do I understand now that you just hope to get your system back to where it
was prior to your beginning to fix the issues you were having?

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Larry

"Mike_in_Nebraska" <mike_webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Feb 17, 3:36 pm, "Larry Struckmeyer" <lstruckmeyer(at)mis-
wizards(dot)com> wrote:
HiMike:

Welcome back!

Have you ever seen this
document?http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/d/8/bd8e1a40-d202-429a-8eb7-...
The essence of which is to install SBS CD1, Install what ever Windows SP
your system had before it crashed, and then restore from backup?

Or do you have a different plan?

If so, I suggest you start a new thread outlining your plan and ask for
comments.

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Larry

"Mike_in_Nebraska" <mike_w...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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See if you can get back to where you were. And dude, this kind of
project
should never be attempted on a weekday - even with excellent planning.
At
this point I think you'd truly have been better off with a clean
reinstall
of SBS on new hardware & migrating everyone/everything over to the new
domain, especially as you said you had problems with the old setup
(which
is
why you began down this road).

Test in a lab environment next time & do this stuff on a weekend -
ideally,
a three day weekend - with some assistance. You can't be functioning
well
right now, and you're right - it's not doing anyone any good.

All good points. (I got lot's of rest and time with my wife. Will be
back on the server restoration Monday about 6 am.)
I'd read several MVP's that do regular (once a year or so)
"flattening" of their server, plus I trusted (too mch) in my backup s/
w to be able to do a restoration with me doing litle more than click a
button now and then. (stupid, stupid stupid)
Did this on a weekday as I work a P/T job on weekends.
Can't get back to where I was as I've already reinstalled the OS over
the old system, so yt's gone. Nothin to do now but press on.

I found a good doc at Symantec's support portal on restoring SBS (sure
wish I'd done my homework and found it FIRST), so will follow it. I
plan to restore the System State first and then the Information Store.

Just curious ... if I can't restore the System State, can I somehow
associate the Information store with new accounts for users and
computers? (I have fewer than 20 total so it wouldn't be a big deal to
recreate them).

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Thanks for the support!
I've got that doc, and it's useful as a guide, but is NTBackup-
centric. I finally found this at Symantec and will follow it.
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/243037.htm
I will give it a go tomorrow and report back with the results. I also
plan to report at the very end with my Lessons-Learned in hopes they
can help others.

Mike


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