If not you may want to see if you can boot some form of Linux or Windows PE to
get the data off the drives before you start working them. I too have seen
this and it was not pretty at all. We ended up booting to a PE CD and moving
accessible data off to a USB drive then rebuilding the machine to a better
state. Separate system and data drives along with better setup for backups.
We got enough off to keep the client happy but not all was accessible after all
was said and done.
Jon
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Rebuilding/restoring a SBS 2011 server check.
> Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 08:46:02 +0000
>
> I predict a new server install.
>
> Manually re-joining all the workstations and a manual recovery of the data.
>
> The odds of that server getting restored with the information given is almost
> none existent, Iv seen things like this before, and a rebuild is normally the
> only way to move forward.
>
> Just hope that the data was backed up.
>
> Gavin Wilby
> IT Support Engineer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Susan Bradley
> Sent: 29 August 2014 20:00
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Rebuilding/restoring a SBS 2011 server check
> [DETECTED AS SPAM];
>
> Yes, Dell does this. One big hunking C drive.
>
> He seriously has no good backup to restore the server to?
>
> As you are disjoining/rejoining and having a really fun labor day weekend.
>
> Susan Bradley
> Still migrating the msmvps.com blogs but we're getting closer.
> blogs.msmvps.com/bradley is the new url and redirects are in place Have I
> mentioned how much migrations are REALLY painful?
>
> On 8/29/2014 11:38 AM, Art DeKneef wrote:
> >
> > Seems to be my week for strange things falling in my lap to fix.
> >
> > Guy called me Tuesday about a downed SBS 2011 server. He was working
> > with Microsoft for the past couple of days trying to recover the
> > server/store from corruption. The original IT guy couldn't/wouldn't
> > help him. Tuesday it had been down a week. No email, Internet, server
> > access. I had him backup everyone's Outlook to a PST file just in
> > case. Told him to turn DNS/DHCP on the router/firewall so they had
> > Internet access. Have a Spam box of some kind filtering email. Users
> > can now access it via a web client to check stored email. Basic stuff
> > so they could function a little.
> >
> > Called this morning and seems the server was hosed really bad.
> > Microsoft couldn't recover the server/store so he is going to
> > reinstall the software and start from rebuilding the domain. Of course
> > he is hoping to not have to recreate 50 users, the shares, permissions
> > as much as possible. Somehow I feel there isn't any good recent
> > documentation around.
> >
> > He thinks he has a clean backup in an ISO format he can mount. It
> > seems this ISO has the server as everything on C: drive. I asked about
> > the server and it is a Dell server, unknown model, with 3 drives in a
> > RAID 5 configuration. Everything installed on the C: drive. Who does
> > that?
> >
> > The plan is for him to reinstall the software and then apply all the
> > updates. Should be finished later today. Then tomorrow go there and
> > help him see if the ISO backup is good and get the shares from the
> > registry and import them to the new install. And try to see if I can
> > recover the Active Directory from the ISO and restore that to the new
> > install. If not then we will be walking around a lot rejoining the
> > computers to the new install.
> >
> > I'm sure I left out a few things but anything obvious I missed?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Art DeKneef
> >
> > Avanti Computers
> >
> > Mesa, AZ
> >
> > 480-649-4430 Office
> >
> > 480-529-4430 Mobile
> >
>
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