Nice write-up Andy!
~Rick -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 7:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] restore of 2008 r2 server wih web iis role Hi Tim, No special steps should be necessary. You should observe the following: 1. The restore method you mentioned works fairly well for Windows 2003, but is not "best practice" for Windows Vista and higher. Rather, you should use WinPE and ASR as outlined here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/x/EwgFD Microsoft does not support BMR/DR scenarios involving dissimilar hardware. In practice, you can get away with some minor hardware differences, such as: * Restore to a system with different memory * Restore to a system with larger disks than original system The above wiki article includes some of the "gotchas" that will cause restore issues. 2. When backing up Windows, you should follow the advice given in this presentation: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27023299 It is a large presentation containing a lot of history and background, but the "bottom line" backup recommendations are on pages 27 - 33 of the PDF file. On that same web page, you can link to a recording of my presentation of the material. It is lengthy, but contains information you might find insightful. In particular, for "proof of concept" testing: * Exclude as little as possible, unless you KNOW that the files are not needed to restore a viable system. * In particular, do not exclude NTUSER.DAT* and USRCLASS*.DAT files. * Use OFS with VSS as the snapshot provider for backup of drives (dsm.opt file option SNAPSHOTPROVIDERFS VSS). * Check dsmsched.log and dsmerror.log for any anomalous messages found during the backup (you want NO anomalous messages) 3. Make sure you have remediated the issue described in this flash and APAR: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21462430 http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC72446 If you have HP OpenView installed, you need to check for that issue. If you are affected, then at a minimum, apply the registry change described in the above flash to all Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 systems. If you also provide system state backup support for Windows Vista and Windows 7 workstations, then this change should be applied on those as well. For longer term, install Microsoft hotfix 2647841 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2647841) , which corrects this problem for any service that might use '/' instead of '\' in the registry. If you apply the hotfix, then the HP OpenView registry value change is not necessary. 4. Once you know you have a clean backup (do not accept anything less than return code 0, no warning messages or anything else), then try the restore. See if that changes anything. Best regards, Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development Level 3 Team Lead Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Hartford/IBM@IBMUS Internet e-mail: [email protected] IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Tivoli/Tivoli_ Storage_Manager "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> wrote on 2012-09-10 09:47:03: > From: Tim Brown <[email protected]> > To: [email protected], > Date: 2012-09-10 10:30 > Subject: restore of 2008 r2 server wih web iis role > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> > > Restored Window 2008 r2 server that had the IIS role enabled > > but the restored server is indicating that the role is not installed. > > > > Is there any special steps that are required so that the restored > > server has the iis role installed. > > > > Steps: > > > > installed new server same os, sp level > > restored c: drive and system state > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Tim Brown > Supervisor Computer Operations > > Central Hudson Gas & Electric > 284 South Ave > Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 > Email: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] << < > mailto:[email protected]> mailto:[email protected]>> > Phone: 845-486-5643 > Fax: 845-486-5921 > Cell: 845-235-4255 > > > > > "This message contains confidential information and is only for the > intended recipient. If the reader of this message is not the > intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for > delivering this message to the intended recipient, please notify the > sender immediately by replying to this note and deleting all copies > and attachments." >
