Re: How to use Windows Backup?!!

I had a server a month ago that had a trashed AD. If you know your way
around AD you would know it but otherwise you may have no clue. It is
possible your server had issues and you did not know it. Note that
server I was talking about successfully backed up every night. It just
backed up a messed up AD.

Reading your logs in event viewer may give you clues of issues.

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 16:20:01 -0700, Jose Ydrach
<JoseYdrach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I replaced a failed hdd. Resintalled the server as it was before, same sp
level and everything but got those errors. What i would like to know, is
there anything special i need to check in nt backup to make sure those
backups more trustworthy?


"Jim Behning SBS MVP" wrote:

I blew up a raid config on a server a few months ago. I installed the
OS from scratch and got it to the correct service pack. I formatted
the other partitions I had on the old raid array. I started in
Directory Service Restore Mode. I ran the restore and all was good.
Yes I restored without incident from a good SBS backup. Note that I
want to always see backup completed successfully in my daily report.
Just about impossible to do a server restore if the backup is noted as
failed. Other SBS users have reported complete success with restores
from their SBS backups.

Note if you changed actual hardware you might have to run a repair.
What hardware did you replace?

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:24:01 -0700, Jose Ydrach
<JoseYdrach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've been using the MS built-in backup system ever since we started using
SBS2003 (almost 4 months). All the time the backup finished successfully and
last night when i had to use them for the first time none of them worked.

Can someone shed some light on this matter.

Backups are performed to USB HDD's, space is never a problem. But to make
it short, what is the exact procedure to restore AD if a server fails to boot
for hdd failures with SBS2003.

Here's what i did...

Reinstalled the server replacing the failed hardware, installing it exactly
as the last configuration it had. After installing everything, i rebooted
into Safe Mode Directory Services Restore Mode, and applied my restore. But
all the time that i tried the same procedure i ended up with an unstable
server; either an endless rebooting loop, mentioning that AD Services are
corrupt or simply by freezing itself and not letting me do anything.
Thankfully our AD is small in my SBS but i had to rebuild everything from
scratch, luckyly I was able to restore some emails, with another procedure.

But really what are you pro's using to feel safe when talking about backup
needs? Budget is a problem so im trying to first tweak with nt backup before
jumping to any other solutions. But if there is no other way around it, i'll
end up buying it.
See what SBS support is working on
http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/default.aspx
Check your SBS with the SBS Best Practices Analyzer
http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/tags/BPA/default.aspx

See what SBS support is working on
http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/default.aspx
Check your SBS with the SBS Best Practices Analyzer
http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/tags/BPA/default.aspx
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