I have absolutely the same problem. I test IDR recovery with our customer server.
See environment:
Media server:
Windows Server 2003 SE,
BE 9.1
IDR
Client Server:
Windows Server 2003 SE,
SQL 2000
Remote Agent
What I do:
1) Create full backup of client server, including C::, Shadow Copy, SQL components. There are the message that all is OK, update your IDR disk
2) Create IDR bootable CD from client (without or with ASR-files)
3) Remove system drive from the client server and install the same clean drive.
4) Boot from IDR CD
5) Press F2 to go to Windows Server 2003 ASR process
6) Path through repartitioning, copying system files.
7) Go to graphical setup mode.
8) IDR restore wizard is pop up
9) I select a correct *.DR file (it's up-to-date)
10) I select "Fully Automated recovery" and "Recovery to the same state"
11) I select remote restore and successfully logon to the media server
12) But there is no drives to restore or media sets from which to restore
13) After all I get the error message:
"The recovery application "C:\WINDOWS\system32\asr_pfu.exe /restore /sifpath=C:\WINDOWS\repair\asr.sif" returned an error code 0x2. Since this indicates an unrecoverable error, ASR cannot continue on this machine."
How to resolve this problem?
It seems that IDR recovery cannot find catalogs for restoring media. But why? Maybe *.DR is not include catalogs? For what reason?
