Perform full restore on another server.

[Kevin_VanDerWer]

I apologize if this information is readily available somewhere else but I have reviewed the manual and attempted to find my answer on the forums but have not been able too. I have a domain controller that I would like to test for business continuity by attempting to restore the full backup of this DC1 onto a new test server. I cannot seem to find a way to perform a restore of DC1 onto a new server say called DC2. Basically I want an exact copy of the 2 servers. Is this possible and if so, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[shweta_rege]

Hello,
Are you trying to do a disaster recovery?

Do you have a IDR installed?

Is backup exec locally installed on the domain controller or on a remote server?

Is the new domain controller in a test environment?

You can refer the following documents:

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/236286.htm

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/236240.htm

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/191461.htm

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=263532

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Thank You

[Kevin_VanDerWer]

At this time, IDR is not installed.

I have reviewed some of the information that I could find on the feature and am still curious on what exactly the steps would be for recovering a server and rebuilding it onto another one. Any further information on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.Message was edited by:
Kevin VanDerWerf

[Ken_Putnam]

Look in the admin guide under "Disaster Recover" for recovery steps, and "How to Prepare for Disaster Recovery" to make sure you are getting everything you need to restore a machine completely

If you can't find your bound copy, you can donwload a copy at http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/266190.htm

[Kevin_VanDerWer]

Thank for your the continued information on this issue. I understand that it is fairly easy to restore a server however I am trying to take a full backup of production "DC1" and restore it onto a testlab "DC2". I simply want to know how difficult it is to restore a backup from a totally destroyed server, onto another server. I cannot seem to find the answers I am looking for. Am i just not looking deep enough into this or simply overlooking something. Any further assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[Joshua_Small]

Hi Kevin,

This question comes up constantly.
The specific answers you seek aren't highly documented by Veritas, because Veritas seems to feel everyone would only be using backup to restore onto the same server (or exact same hardware) the backup was taken on.

Since you are doing in a test lab, at least you aren't in any danger, etc if you have problems with testlab DC2 it won't affect your network.

Firstly, don't buy IDR. It's a complete waste of time.

Secondly,

- Install Windows 2003
- Install SP1
- Install Veritas
- Inventory/Catalogue a tape
- Restore C:\ and System State

[Kevin_VanDerWer]

Joshua, thank you for the information. With your steps at the bottom, it seems to me that you are suggesting taking the backup device/tape out of the say DC1 and bringing it into DC2 and then restoring the information, is this correct? Thanks.

[Joshua_Small]

Hi Kevin,

That would be correct.
If your hardware is slightly different, be aware you will of course need to install drivers for any additional hardware, and often re-install drivers even for drivers that were on both the old and new server.

The only major problem you will run into is where the HALs are not compatible. This would occur for example if you were restoring from a dual CPU server to a single CPU machine. Unfortunately, workarounds for this are difficult.

[Kevin_VanDerWer]

This idea has crossed my mind but ultimately, the reason for this testing it in the case that our serverroom was destroyed, we would be able to restore a previous weeks backup onto another server. While this can stil be done with your suggested method, it would require having an additional backup unit just in case the other one was destroyed. Its something for me to look deeper into though, thanks for the suggestion.

[Deepali_Badave]

Hello,

Windows Disaster Recovery:

Disaster Recovery of a Local Windows 2000 Computer (includes non-authoritative restore of Active Directory for a domain controller)
http://support.veritas.com/docs/236240

Disaster Recovery of a remote Windows 2000 computer (includes non-authoritative restore of Active Directory for a domain controller)
http://support.veritas.com/docs/236286

How to carry out a non-authoritative restore of the system state
http://support.veritas.com/docs/236661

How to perform a local recovery of a Microsoft Windows 2000 Small Business Server
http://support.veritas.com/docs/243037

How to restore the Microsoft Windows 2000 Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Repository and Removable Storage Data with Backup Exec for Windows NT and Windows 2000 v8.x.
http://support.veritas.com/docs/231742

How to restore the Terminal Services databases and Disk Quota data
http://support.veritas.com/docs/231656

How to perform a disaster recovery of a local or remote Windows NT 4.0 machine manually
http://support.veritas.com/docs/241149

Recovering a system that uses a RAID array.
http://support.veritas.com/docs/190616



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