Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Backups....
I’ve had lots of success restoring Windows 2003 and 2008 file servers using this simple method (all servers were HP Proliant). Haven’t tried Windows 2012 yet… Assuming you’re restoring to the same hardware, and that you backed up the system state... 1. Install same version of Windows with the same partition sizes (or larger) and the same computer name and IP address 2. Install the same service pack revision (no need to worry about patches). 3. Do not join this new Windows build to the domain. 4. Install the same version of NetBackup client 5. Restore everything with option to overwrite files. 6. Reboot. 7. As long as the computer account has not expired from Active Directory, you should be able to login with a domain account; if not, login with a local account and leave the domain and join it again. I have done this several times with no problems, but here is the official word from Symantec: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=contentid=TECH56473 hth, Neil On Mar 24, 2014, at 7:30 AM, Bluejay Adametz blue...@fujifilm.com wrote: OKFirst let me say that I'm sorrybut I'm not a Windows dude. I live, eat, and sleep in the Unix/Linux world. You're not alone... I'm in basically the same situation. We haven't been successful in the past in backing up Windows boxes and being able to restore them back to the way there were when the last full backup was taken. Windows is notoriously difficult to recover in it's entirety. Near as I can tell, there are two options to effect a full recovery from just backups: a. Install the required version of Windows and all associated patches, updates, and software, then restore the data from backups. b. Use NetBackup's Bare Metal Restore functionality (which used to be a separately-licensed product, but is now included). This requires a bunch more infrastructure, but does work. - Bluejay Adametz To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish. - Chinese Proverb -- NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information, or information otherwise protected from disclosure by law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, disclosure, copying, dissemination or distribution of this message or any of its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you received this message in error, please contact the sender immediately by reply email and destroy this message, including all attachments, and any copies thereof. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Windows Backups....
OKFirst let me say that I'm sorrybut I'm not a Windows dude. I live, eat, and sleep in the Unix/Linux world. I have a couple of Windows backup clients that my customer wants backed up to include system state (or whatever they call it now days). Master server is Solaris 10 box running NBU 7.5.0.6 We haven't been successful in the past in backing up Windows boxes and being able to restore them back to the way there were when the last full backup was taken. I realize that this may spawn more questions than answers, but I'm asking anyway. +-- |This was sent by dpe...@acxiom.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Backups....
OKFirst let me say that I'm sorrybut I'm not a Windows dude. I live, eat, and sleep in the Unix/Linux world. You're not alone... I'm in basically the same situation. We haven't been successful in the past in backing up Windows boxes and being able to restore them back to the way there were when the last full backup was taken. Windows is notoriously difficult to recover in it's entirety. Near as I can tell, there are two options to effect a full recovery from just backups: a. Install the required version of Windows and all associated patches, updates, and software, then restore the data from backups. b. Use NetBackup's Bare Metal Restore functionality (which used to be a separately-licensed product, but is now included). This requires a bunch more infrastructure, but does work. - Bluejay Adametz To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish. - Chinese Proverb -- NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information, or information otherwise protected from disclosure by law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, disclosure, copying, dissemination or distribution of this message or any of its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you received this message in error, please contact the sender immediately by reply email and destroy this message, including all attachments, and any copies thereof. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Windows Backups....
Well I can't do BMR setup every time I hope to recover a Windows box. We have HUNDREDS of backup clients spanning Unix, Linux, and Windows. Maybe hundreds is a bit of an understatement because I do know of at least 2,000 backup clients in our world here. To setup an infrastructure to BMR any of the Windows boxes would probably cost us into the millions of dollars. Just not an option with as large of a locale as we are. I will ask the Windows engineers to see what they prefer we do. Last time we did a DR with them, they backed up the System State to a file on the server and we backed that up via Netbackup as part of the backup work before the DR. (Disaster Recovery). Thanks for your response. I appreciate it. +-- |This was sent by dpe...@acxiom.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Backups....
There's at least one knowledge-base article on how to do that, but I don't have its number handy. :-( My too-old NetBackup experience (i.e., I expect there to be better/newer info now), is that if you are restoring to the same hardware ... - install Windows, networking and NetBackup to a separate partition. - restore your Windows partition stuff. - switch back to booting the newly restored partition. - restore other partitions. I'm sure this is too simplified, but at least it gives you the clue that you cannot restore to an active Windows boot partition nor to the active registry. Restoring to different hardware also gets dicey quickly. There are probably caveats if this is/was a domain controller. I always tell people coming to me for their Windows backup: have the data you need backed up on a separate partition and be prepared to reinstall and reconfigure when you have a failure of your Windows partition. ... sort of like when your mother's machine fails and you get to buy a new machine, reinstall/configure apps, and restore data from Carbonite (or whatever). Cheers, Wayne (NOT a Windows expert) ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Backups....
Additionally to this one, I prefer the BMR Option. Imagine the effort to install a new machine (OS, patch level etc) in order to perform a full restore. Using BMR, you need a server to host the boot cds, PXE to be faster and one boot image of every OS and that's it. You do not need full OS, but only boot disks. Nikos Apostolou Systems Security Engineer -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dennis Peacock Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 4:42 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Windows Backups Well I can't do BMR setup every time I hope to recover a Windows box. We have HUNDREDS of backup clients spanning Unix, Linux, and Windows. Maybe hundreds is a bit of an understatement because I do know of at least 2,000 backup clients in our world here. To setup an infrastructure to BMR any of the Windows boxes would probably cost us into the millions of dollars. Just not an option with as large of a locale as we are. I will ask the Windows engineers to see what they prefer we do. Last time we did a DR with them, they backed up the System State to a file on the server and we backed that up via Netbackup as part of the backup work before the DR. (Disaster Recovery). Thanks for your response. I appreciate it. +-- |This was sent by dpe...@acxiom.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Legal Disclaimer: This email, and any files previous email messages included with it, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient please contact the sender and delete all copies. Δηλωση αποποίησης: Το μηνυμα αυτό και τα σχετικά επισυναπτόμενα μπορεί να περιέχουν εμπιστευτικές πληροφορίες. Εαν δεν είστε ο νομιμος παραλήπτης αυτού παρακαλούμε να το διαγράψετε και να επικοινωνήσετε με τον αποστολέα. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Backups....
BMR doesn't support EFI before 7.6.0.1 though... -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Nikos Apostolou Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 1:22 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Backups Additionally to this one, I prefer the BMR Option. Imagine the effort to install a new machine (OS, patch level etc) in order to perform a full restore. Using BMR, you need a server to host the boot cds, PXE to be faster and one boot image of every OS and that's it. You do not need full OS, but only boot disks. Nikos Apostolou Systems Security Engineer -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dennis Peacock Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 4:42 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Windows Backups Well I can't do BMR setup every time I hope to recover a Windows box. We have HUNDREDS of backup clients spanning Unix, Linux, and Windows. Maybe hundreds is a bit of an understatement because I do know of at least 2,000 backup clients in our world here. To setup an infrastructure to BMR any of the Windows boxes would probably cost us into the millions of dollars. Just not an option with as large of a locale as we are. I will ask the Windows engineers to see what they prefer we do. Last time we did a DR with them, they backed up the System State to a file on the server and we backed that up via Netbackup as part of the backup work before the DR. (Disaster Recovery). Thanks for your response. I appreciate it. +-- |This was sent by dpe...@acxiom.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Legal Disclaimer: This email, and any files previous email messages included with it, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient please contact the sender and delete all copies. Δηλωση αποποίησης: Το μηνυμα αυτό και τα σχετικά επισυναπτόμενα μπορεί να περιέχουν εμπιστευτικές πληροφορίες. Εαν δεν είστε ο νομιμος παραλήπτης αυτού παρακαλούμε να το διαγράψετε και να επικοινωνήσετε με τον αποστολέα. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu This email and any attachments are intended only for the named recipient and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any unauthorized copying, dissemination or other use by a person other than the named recipient of this communication is prohibited. If you received this in error or are not named as a recipient, please notify the sender and destroy all copies of this email immediately. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Backups....
Hello Dennis, I have found the following: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=contentid=TECH56473 It's not for solaris but it has the restore procedure in details. Actually, I have not test it. I have used BMR for a couple of times (hopefully for test reason) Nikos Apostolou Systems Security Engineer -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dennis Peacock Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 4:11 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Windows Backups OKFirst let me say that I'm sorrybut I'm not a Windows dude. I live, eat, and sleep in the Unix/Linux world. I have a couple of Windows backup clients that my customer wants backed up to include system state (or whatever they call it now days). Master server is Solaris 10 box running NBU 7.5.0.6 We haven't been successful in the past in backing up Windows boxes and being able to restore them back to the way there were when the last full backup was taken. I realize that this may spawn more questions than answers, but I'm asking anyway. +-- |This was sent by dpe...@acxiom.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Legal Disclaimer: This email, and any files previous email messages included with it, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient please contact the sender and delete all copies. Δηλωση αποποίησης: Το μηνυμα αυτό και τα σχετικά επισυναπτόμενα μπορεί να περιέχουν εμπιστευτικές πληροφορίες. Εαν δεν είστε ο νομιμος παραλήπτης αυτού παρακαλούμε να το διαγράψετε και να επικοινωνήσετε με τον αποστολέα. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Windows Backups Restored to Linux Boxes
Enviroment: NBU 6.0 MP4 on Windows 2K3 machine We have a fairly large VMware shop in house for all of Windows boxes. To back up these VM images, we end up taking tarballs of the VMDK files, and dropping them to a Windows boxe with several large attached luns. This works flawlessly... But, we are going to DR here shortly, and we were hoping to just drop the tarballs directly onto LINUX boxes running ESX. I can restore the tarballs, but the restore comes up incomplete. I see the following errors in our logs: 08:47:16 2/16/2007: Restore Started 08:47:17 (23828.xxx) Restore job id 23828 will require 1 image. 08:47:17 (23828.xxx) Media id R00086 is needed for the restore. 08:47:17 (23828.xxx) Media id R00081 is needed for the restore. 08:47:54 (23828.001) Restoring from image created 2/12/2007 2:44:16 PM 08:48:03 (23828.001) INF - Waiting for positioning of media id R00086 on server sbs09932bu002.usncraleigh9901.int.wolseley.com for reading. 08:48:53 (23828.001) INF - Beginning restore from server sbs09932bu002.usncraleigh9901.int.wolseley.com to client sbs09932vi001.carolinaholdings.internal. 09:04:23 (23828.001) Windows security info file type 'L' for .SeCuRiTy.106, ignored... 09:04:23 (23828.001) /W/snaps/sbs09932vi004.carolinaholdings.internal/sbs09932vm031_11.tgz 09:04:23 (23828.001) Changed /W/snaps/sbs09932vi004.carolinaholdings.internal/sbs09932vm031_11.tgz to /restored/sbs09932vm031_11.tgz 09:06:20 (23828.001) Unexpected EOF on archive file 09:06:20 (23828.001) (23828.001) INF - TAR EXITING WITH STATUS = 0 09:06:20 (23828.001) (23828.001) INF - TAR RESTORED 0 OF 1 FILES SUCCESSFULLY 09:06:20 (23828.001) (23828.001) INF - TAR KEPT 0 EXISTING FILES 09:06:20 (23828.001) (23828.001) INF - TAR PARTIALLY RESTORED 0 FILES 09:06:21 (23828.001) Status of restore from image created 2/12/2007 2:44:16 PM = the restore failed to recover the requested files 09:06:24 (23828.xxx) INF - Status = the restore failed to recover the requested files. When I try to untar the tarballs, I see the following errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED] restored]# tar -zxfv sbs09932vm031_11.tgz tar (child): v: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: sbs09932vm031_11.tgz: Not found in archive tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors [EMAIL PROTECTED] restored]# Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Regards, -cj Courtenay Jones UNIX Administrator, Systems Engineering Wolseley North American Division * 8020 Arco Corporate Drive * Raleigh * NC * 27617 T: +1 (919) 431 1882 * F: +1 (919) 431 1198 * M: +1 (919) 673 3983 www.wolseley.com http://www.wolseley.com/ Wolseley plc registered office Parkview 1220 Arlington Business Park Theale Nr Reading RG7 4GA United Kingdom Registration No. 29846 England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Backups Restored to Linux Boxes
That was a typo on my part - Forgive me, I am going on about 3 hours of sleep. We figured out the solution - we backup the tarballs that are currently sitting on a windows box with a standard policy. We will be moving the luns that are tied to that Windows box and shifting them over to be attached to our Linux boxes. Thanks for the help... Regards, -cj Courtenay Jones -Original Message- From: Sander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 1:40 PM To: Jones, Courtenay Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Backups Restored to Linux Boxes Jones, Courtenay wrote (ao): But, we are going to DR here shortly, and we were hoping to just drop the tarballs directly onto LINUX boxes running ESX. I can restore the tarballs, but the restore comes up incomplete. FWIW, ESX runs on top of the iron, not on top of Linux. I see the following errors in our logs: 08:47:16 2/16/2007: Restore Started Do you also get errors in the backup log? Or are you sure the tarballs get mangled during the restore? When I try to untar the tarballs, I see the following errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED] restored]# tar -zxfv sbs09932vm031_11.tgz tar (child): v: Cannot open: No such file or directory You are trying to untar file 'v' .. tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: sbs09932vm031_11.tgz: Not found in archive .. and extracting sbs09932vm031_11.tgz from it. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Can you try with 'tar xf sbs09932vm031_11.tgz' ? How big are your tarballs and the VMDK files they include? And to what filesystem are you recovering? With kind regards, Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
