Logon Scripts

I'm not quite sure that this belongs in this group, so please bear
with me.

We run Server 2003, SP2. We have two (2) Domain Controllers ( DCs ),
approx two (2) dozen plus VMware servers, and a couple more pysical
servers besides our DCs. We use Backup Exec v12.5 to back up our
servers.

Last week I had occasion to...ahhh...fix an error I had made. I went
to my backups, and restored BOTH DCs to a different location. I
wanted to retrieve all my logon scripts.

Imagine my surprise, when my backups retrieved...NOTHING. Well, okay,
techically not nothing. I mean it appears that everything on both DCs
did restore. Everything EXCEPT my logon scripts. In fact, the SYSVOL
folder is the last folder/file down the tree that did restore.
Anything BELOW SYSVOL, nada, zip, zilch. So...

Now I'm trying to determine if this is normal, or I have some sort of
problem that I need to fix.

( I currently can't get onto Symantec's forums, as I have in the past,
so I don't know what they [would] say about this. )

Is it 'normal' that I cannot back up my logon scripts, so that any
restore won't get them? Or do you think that I have a Backup Exec
issue?

Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance,

Tom

Hello TCS,

If you make a full server backup or at least the system state it should include
of course the complete sysvol folders with content. SO maybe it is within
BE. Use ntbackup to have a system state backup and see what it contains after
restore.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> I'm not quite sure that this belongs in this group, so please bear
> with me.
>
> We run Server 2003, SP2. We have two (2) Domain Controllers ( DCs ),
> approx two (2) dozen plus VMware servers, and a couple more pysical
> servers besides our DCs. We use Backup Exec v12.5 to back up our
> servers.
>
> Last week I had occasion to...ahhh...fix an error I had made. I went
> to my backups, and restored BOTH DCs to a different location. I
> wanted to retrieve all my logon scripts.
>
> Imagine my surprise, when my backups retrieved...NOTHING. Well, okay,
> techically not nothing. I mean it appears that everything on both DCs
> did restore. Everything EXCEPT my logon scripts. In fact, the SYSVOL
> folder is the last folder/file down the tree that did restore.
> Anything BELOW SYSVOL, nada, zip, zilch. So...
>
> Now I'm trying to determine if this is normal, or I have some sort of
> problem that I need to fix.
>
> ( I currently can't get onto Symantec's forums, as I have in the past,
> so I don't know what they [would] say about this. )
>
> Is it 'normal' that I cannot back up my logon scripts, so that any
> restore won't get them? Or do you think that I have a Backup Exec
> issue?
>
> Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance,
>
> Tom
>