Tim,
Windows is the easiest restore in the entire venue. From scratch, load
the OS (patched to whatever level your version of NBU requires) and leave it in
the workgroup mode with a workgroup having the same name as the domain it was
in. Load the nbu agent, partition the drive, then do a FULL resore,
reboot, done. I have actually done this across disimiliar platforms, albeit you
have to be a bit tricky. In short we will never waste money on windows bmr, it's
just to easy to do it the old fashioned way. The only caveats
are
1.
Domain Comtrollers require a reboot into domain controller restore
mode
2.
NB5.1 mp2 had a major bug with w2k3. Just make sure you are higher (or lower)
than that.
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restoring entire servers (Windows)I'm just reviewing disaster recovery at the moment and have found a paragraph or 2 recommending that all system files and application files are backed up. We generally run A_L_D in our policies 'just in case' but I've been thinking about restoring system and application files and wonder how most people approach this sort of thing.We don't use BMR so I figure the best way to restore an entire server is to rebuild the OS, install any applications then restore actual 'data'; I've always considered if you try to restore 'everything' it could get a bit messy and confused if some of it doesn't get restored exactly as it was before.Without using BMR, can you restore the contents of an entire server in Windows (I'm talking the whole show including system files, system_state data, applications and everything)?Cheers,
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