Disaster recovery of System State.

I am installing a new server in a small network who's only server has crashed
and is beyond repair. I have the last backup tapes which were created using
Veritas backup exec 9.1. Both servers are 2003 SP1. As soon as I restore
the system state and the server restarts, it does not boot properly and we
get innaccessible boot device message. The new server was set up with the
same drive set up as the previous server.

Has anybody managed to do this using different hardware?

 

have a look at:
MS-KBQ263532_How to perform a disaster recovery restoration of Active
Directory on a computer with a different hardware configuration

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# Jorge de Almeida Pinto # MVP Windows Server - Directory Services

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Thats ok if you are running NTBackup as your backup software, but how many
people actually use it? This does not work with any other backup software.
Has anybody else managed to do a disaster recovery using BAckup Exec?

 

NTBACKUP is a key part of my backup strategy. I have a scheduled
NTBACKUP job that backs up the System State to another server that has
Backup Exec. It is then backed up to tape daily.

Regards,
Hank Arnold

 

Thanks Hank,

but unfortunately the System state still does not restore correctly because
the chipset on the new server is totally different from the old server. This
is what we think is causing the problem. The new hardware is about 3 years
newer than the old hardware. We can restore the system state but the server
does not boot. This is the main problem.