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cadl's avatar
cadl
Level 3
10 years ago

Registry or Windows Services Recovery?

I need to do a rather selective restore from a backup on Server 2003 with Exec 11d (space issue). I need to temporarily active a propriety database that needs to be running as a Windows service befor...
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  • pkh's avatar
    pkh
    10 years ago

    You would not be able to achieve what you want without restoring the registry.  What you are trying to do is to, say, recover BE by just restoring the the BE installation directory.  As you are aware, this will not recover the BE services because these are defined in the registry.  This is the way all Windows software operates.  Your software/database should be no different.

    You would either need to restore the entire server, including the registry, to a point before the software/database was deleted, or re-install the software/database and then restore the data into the database.  To restore the data into the newly installed database, you would have to consult the software/database vendor.

jurgen_barbieur's avatar
jurgen_barbieur
Level 6
10 years ago

restoring program files, registry, ... to have some programs working, is not the way to do a restore.

If you want to restore some files, you can do a selective restore.

If you want to have DR (a disaster recovery) done, you have to restore the whole server at once. If it is a virtual server, just restore the whole vmdk. If you are talking about a phisical server, you have to reinstall the OS, install the backupagent, and restore the complete server.

If be 11 allready support SDR (simple disaster recovery) you can create a be boot cd, start your server with this CD, and restore the server image.

the TN below describes several DR scenarios,

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH83015&profileURL=https%3A%2F%2Fsymaccount-profile.symantec.com%2FSSO%2Findex.jsp%3FssoID%3D1410882816867sQZ60Dw5RX1qXK1yR0Fw1O8bp8X4D2ELJW7f6