Hi All,
I have made a RAW backup of a Drive on SERVER A using:
Windown NT Policy type, backup selection \\.\z: (Which works fine)
Now I need to urgently restore this RAW backup to a different server (SERVER B).
For this I start the BACKUP, ARCHIVE AND RESTORE tool on the master server and specify:
Source client: SERVER A
Destination client: SERVER B
Policy Type: MS-Windows NT
I select the date and volume I need and start the RESTORE (Using RESTORE TO ORIGINAL LOCATION and checking the OVERWRITE checkbox).
The restore seems to run fine:
12:48:34 16/12/2007: Restore Started
12:48:38 (228471.xxx) Restore job id 228471 will require 1 image.
12:48:38 (228471.xxx) Media id S00424 is needed for the restore.
12:48:38 (228471.xxx) Media id S00494 is needed for the restore.
12:48:52 (228471.001) Restoring from image created 12/16/2007 12:00:03 AM
12:48:56 (228471.001) INF - If Media id S00424 is not in a robotic library administrative interaction may be required to satisfy this mount request.
12:49:00 (228471.001) INF - Waiting for positioning of media id S00424 on server server_a for reading.
12:49:06 (228471.001) INF - Beginning restore from server server_a to client server_b.
12:49:08 (228471.001) TAR - \\.\z:
18:30:26 (228471.001) INF - If Media id S00494 is not in a robotic library administrative interaction may be required to satisfy this mount request.
18:30:35 (228471.001) INF - Waiting for mount of media id S00494 on server server_a for reading.
18:33:45 (228471.001) INF - Waiting for positioning of media id S00494 on server server_a for reading.
18:33:47 (228471.001) INF - Continuing restore from server server_a to client server_b.
23:00:52 (228471.001) (228471.001) INF - TAR EXITING WITH STATUS = 0
23:00:52 (228471.001) (228471.001) INF - TAR RESTORED 1 OF 1 FILES SUCCESSFULLY
23:00:52 (228471.001) (228471.001) INF - TAR KEPT 0 EXISTING FILES
23:00:52 (228471.001) (228471.001) INF - TAR PARTIALLY RESTORED 0 FILES 23:00:52 (228471.001) Status of restore from image created 12/16/2007 12:00:03 AM = the requested operation was successfully completed
23:00:53 (228471.xxx) INF - Status = the requested operation was successfully completed
Unfortunately, after the restore is finished and the destination server is booted the volume appears as unformated (It was formatted & empty before the restore).
My questions:
1) Is it possible to do a RAW restore of a volume to a different server than it was backed up from?
2) Should I specify something different than: RESTORE TO ORIGINAL LOCATION???
2a) If so: What should I specify? The documentation says something about a LEADING FORWARD SLASH but the examples don't show it anywhere...
2b) Does anyone know what the LEADING SLASH (Mentioned in the documentation) means and where I should place it on restores?
My setup:
All servers are Windows 2003 Servers and I'm using NBU 6.0 with MP5. The volumes on both servers are exactly equal in the number of blocks (Using a SAN).
Any help is appreciated!
Fred
Message Edited by Fredster on
12-17-2007 03:41 AM
