Your hardware changes, drivers, etc., will break your OS on the new machine.
Best to build the new box from the ground up (might as well use Win2k) and
restore the SQL and any other data from the tape.
Jim Busick
Database Network Analyst, MCSE
Santee School District
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Myung Bang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 8:56 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Recovering NT Server from the Backup
>
>
> I am trying to rebuild one of my NT 4.0 SP6a SQL server (along with
> other applications) from old machine to new machine. The older machine
> is running on dual processor with SCSI hard drive and new machine is
> dual processor with IDE hard drive. I am using the ARCserve 2000 to
> backup this old SQL server from different server over the network.
>
> What I want to do is install minimal OS on the new machine and recover
> everything from the backup, but worry about difference of hard drive.
> The question is:
> 1. Is it possible to recover whole system from the tape
> backup including
> OS?
> 2. If it is, can I recover whole OS even though different hardware?
>
> Thanks.
> Myung
>
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