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

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:05:44 -0800 (PST), Mike_in_Nebraska
<mike_webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


MIke

When I did my repair a few weeks ago all I needed was the operating
system and the correct service pack. Since you are using BE you
probably had to get SQL running but might not have needed all the
updates.

Maybe you could boot off your SBS disk and try to do a repair. One
misadventure is your media does not have SP2 for the OS. I have seen a
few no boot OSs come back to life with a repair.

Are you saying that when you boot off the CD and you are presented all
the partitions, it will not let you delete the old partitions, create
new partitions and then format the new partitions?

Are you restoring just system state or everything except data? Is it
possible that when you restored system state it is looking for a whole
lot of files that are missing? Not system state files but program
files and other files. When I did my restore I did everything but data
just to get things to go quickly. I did data and Exchange after I had
a good bootable OS. So to be less vague I did not click Clientapps,
Company, Users and any other shared folders.

Another adventure is making sure you have the same drive letters as
you did before the mess. Easy to see what the old drive letters were
from that tape you catalogued in BE.

I do not know for sure but at one time those tapes made in BE were not
that proprietary. You could read them from NTBackup. Of course I could
be recalling incorrectly.- Hide quoted text -

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Great questions! To answer them:
(1) I DID boot off of Disk 1, pressed F6 to load my RAID drive then
got into Repair.
(2) I didn't try to delete any partitions. Maybe I should have. I
have a C and a D drive. For whatever reason, my D drive was left
untouched by all this and has all the logs and user/company data. I
have the User/company dta on tape. So ... should I delete the
partitions, recreate the RAID and then start over?
(3) I did just the System State as I thought it was supposed to be
restored separately. Hadn't thought about other items on C drive. I
backed up a few things that I thought would contain "the look and
feel" of Windows I had before. I could give that a try.
(4) I used Disk Manager and a reboot to First change the D drive to E
drive (as I had originally) nd then the CD drive to D drive. Then I
attempted the Restore.
Mike
When I was doing my restore I did a few mistakes. I seem to recall
that I did leave the D: partition alone as I had plunked some data on
it. I restored system state and everything on the C: drive. I restored
everything on the D:\Program Files except my Exchange database. That
was a speed choice that did not save me any time. My goal was to get
the system state and all the stuff the server needs to run.

You could send me an email and we could chat.
.

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