Hi Johnny
In theory, you should be able to do your restore to the different hardware,
and then boot to the CD, choose setup, and choose repair existing version
of Windows to redetect all hardware. I am not sure this is supported but
we were able to do it in our forest recovery test with no real problems
besides time time time and more time.
Make sure you test the solution well before deciding that an identical box
is not the answer.
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Dear All
I am a bit of AD newbie so I am not even sure if this is an AD issue; so
apologies in advance.
Anyway, we have a disaster recovery server which we plan to store off site.
This will be switched off while in storage. Our live server is a Windows
2000 server running AD. The backup software is Veritas Backup Exec. We do
not use one button recovery.
The plan is this at the moment: when our server cathes fire, is flooded or
stolen, we take a recent tape from off site with all our data and another
tape with our 'system' and restore. Well that was easy!!
Well aside from many likely problems this I the one I want to ask about
here:
The system tape is derived from a Veritas backup called System backup. I
believe this backs up all the registry settings and I assume the user
databse, the DNS, DHCP setting and other services settings also. The
recovery server is not a hardware duplicate of the live server, but it does
run Windows 2000 server and Veritas.
Question: I have been told a systemn restore will result in the recovery
server crashing as it is not a hardware duplicate. How do I backup (and
restore) all the software and operating system settings and the AD settings
without requiring a hardware duplicate? Can anyone point to resources that
state how to do this and what to be aware of?
Many thanks for any help on this
Jonny
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