Hi All,
I'm hoping to catch the eye of some clever combined BackupPC/Windows
admins that can tell me what I'm trying to do will not work, or can
help me to understand why what I'm doing isn't working... :)
In a test environment, I'm trying to perform a file-level backup of a
Windows 2003 R2 server using BackupPC, along with any additional
metadata required, in order to perform a bare metal restore in the
future.
The backup procedure I'm using is:
- Cygwin 1.7, rsync 3.0.6, OpenSSH on Windows server
- backup via rsync method from BackupPC
- dump of file acl's using fileacl and subinacl
- ntbackup of systemstate to c:\systemstate.bkf
- performing VSS snapshot and backing the logical mapped drive via
backuppc
Recovery procedure tested so far:
- new VM/hard disk
- partition / make active / NTFS formate via Win2003 Recovery Console
- copy data via Linux rescue cd to NTFS volume (from backuppc
recovered zip file)
- re-apply filesystem permissions via a second virtual machine (map
the VMWare .vmdk file to a working Win2k3 machine, then restore
acl's via fileacl or subinacl (tried both))
- run fixboot / fixmbr from Windows recovery console
Booting the system results in:
STOP:c0000218 {Registry File Failure}
The registry cannot load the hive (file):
\SystemRoot\System32\Config\DEFAULT
or its log or alternate.
It is corrupt, absent, or not writable.
I've also tested a straight cygwin/rsync between VSS snapshot, and a second
drive accessible in the source Windows machine, and applying ACL's, installing
boot loader, and then trying to boot from that second drive, with the same
results.
Is this a case of not possible? I've seen enough references to performing an
ASR restore followed by a file-level for data, and that is a possibility for my
final solution, but I'd like to konw if a purely file-level + required metadata
is possible.
I'm yet to work out how to perform a system-state restore without an already
working system too - that may be another way to make the system bootable after
the above restore procedure.
I do know that a Repair Install of Win2k3 R2 does bring the system back to
life, but that seems so invasive on the file-level restore.
Any responses / advice / feedback would be much appreciated.
Regards,
Chris Bennett
cgb
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