Server Failure - Restore to a Temporary Server

[Irshath]

Dear ,

I want your support to product our work invironment

Tape Drive IP address: 192.168.1.253

Server : WIndows server 2008 R2 - 192.168.1.3

Temporary Server : Windows Server 2008 R2 - 192.168.1.4

I am using a tape drive to have full backup including system state daily. unfortunately My primary server ( 192.168.1.3) failed to startup due to hardware error, i just need to give service center.

How Can I restore full system from Tape Drive to Temporary Server ? please give me your support or give me your related documents ...

Your quick answere will help me...

Thanks

[CraigV · Accepted solution]

Hi,

1. Install the version of Windows Server on the temporary server that was running on the crashed server;

2. Install the RAWS agent via push-install from the media server;

3. Restore the data on the backup media to the temporary server;

4. Restore the System State (if needed!) and restart the temporary server.

Thanks!

[pkh · Accepted solution]

If the hardware of your temporary server is different from that of your failed server, then you would not be able to do a manual recovery as advised previously.  The server will not be able to boot because of missing drivers.

The only way to recover to a dissimiliar hardware is to use SDR which allows you to load the drivers required for the temporary server, but all these require you to so preparatory work before a disaster.  Also, if I am not mistaken, SDR does not support iSCSI which is probably what you are using to connect your tape drive to your server.

[Irshath]

Thanks For your advise.

The temporary server is defferent then failed server ...

What I understand from your comments :

01. Install the WIndows server 2008 R2 on Temporary server.

02. do i need to connect tape drive into Temporary server ? also need to install the symanatec exe 2012 on it ? without doing these things, how can i get the Active directory ? pls advise...

Thanks

[pkh]

Do read my comment again about not being able to recover if your temporary server has different hardware from your failed server