Re: Windows won't start after AD restore

On Apr 16, 6:37 am, "Brian Cryer" <bri...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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"Mike_in_Nebraska" <mike_w...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Update:

Got this from Symantec Tech Support:
"Do you have System State and C:\ full backup of the same date?

Now to get the System to the same state when it was successfully
backed up [Full backup] please restore C: drive and System State
together.

According to your email I didn't see C: drives information, you have
mentioned System State, IS and Shadow Copy only.

If you don't have C: drives full back [Same date as on System Sate]
then you will experience that issue. The reason for that is your
Registry, Boot files, Partition information, Services linkage wont
work as the newly installed OS has everything different than the
System State."

A constant learning experience; I never picked up on this.  I had made
the assumption that I didn't need to back up the OS (SBS Premium, in
this case); just reinstall it and then restore the System State,
Information Store and Shadow Copy and I'd be back in business.

Crud.

I coulda saved myself many hours over the last 3 1/2 days if I'd known
that.

Mike

Since I've been following your thread, its nice to know what the problem
was. Sorry none of us picked up on this. Yes, you need to backup (and
restore) EVERYTHING.

If you can its worth having a separate box that you can do a test backup and
restore on. I've only done a restore on a system that I could work around
had it failed, but its scary when things go wrong and unfortunately its
typically when you do a restore that you find things don't work (or you
can't find that driver to get SBS to recognise the disk system before you
can even get as far as the restore).

I hope its not too much of a problem for you to recreate your users etc.
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Not reallly, and thanks for following along. Maybe something useful
can come out of this for others. I' m an SBS'er by falling into it
about 4 years ago now for the non-profit I work for. They had a P2P
network in the office using dial-up (!). I brought them into the
modern age when I came aboard by convincing the Board of Directors
that there was a better way. So we made the investment and I've been
learning ever since - mostly by haunting this newsgroup. I also read
everything on SBS I can find, hoping some of it sticks when something
comes up. I read the MS doc on backup and restore for SBS. I';d
skimmed those sections in both books by Harry Brelsford, and skimmed
through the admin guide by Symantec for the product. They all told
you HOW to do it, but none (That I remember) put this aspect in
context - that it was IMPERATIVE that a full backup of the OS be done
for the System State and Shadow Copy backups to be of any use. I
never picked up on that.

As for my situation, I only have about 15 user accounts and 12
computer accounts to create. That's relatively easy. The "nightmare"
is in preserving their "look and feel" when I join them to the
domain. I had a HUGE problem last time with the contents of their My
Documents folders. This time I won't start with the Redirection. I'm
going to rename their current folders on the server with a "_OLD"
suffix to preserv e the contents. Then I 'll do the Redirection so
the new folder gets created, then we'll move the contents of
<username>_OLD to the new folder, reapply Ownership, remove and then
reapply Permissions and that should take care of any "account
unknowns" that plagued us previously. I will also find the Desktop
from the local machine profiles and copy them over to the new domain
profile - rechecking the permissions - and they should be okay.
I had almost as much grumbling about this aspect as I did with the
network downtime. I can certainly appreciate the comfort factor a user
gets with time on how his/her computer "looks".

Mike
P.S. I'm now applying Windows Server SP1 and will then go to the
Premium CD, then back to the 3-CD SP1 set, then to MS Update, then
I'll create the accounts. With luck I'll be home for supper (only 11
short hours from now :) )
.

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