Hey there, I hope I got the right list. If not, please let me know where I should look if possible. Now for the problem. To secure continuity of our customer we want to be a fallback location. (in case something happens at company X, for example the building collapses, they will need to be able to start working here). The problem is, we have different hardware than they have... The customer doesn't want us to be a replica, they want us to restore tapes when the time comes. I've done some testing and stuff, and restoring the complete tapes causes some problems and raises some questions. When restoring the tapes, we would like the shares to restore and all applications should run as they did on the original location. This raises several issues/questions for me. I could just restore the entire tape, but that will cause huge hardware problems. What we will be doing is install NT and the service packs (this is both NT4 and W2K in some cases). According to knowledgebase article Q139822 in the \winnt\system32\config the system.* and *.evt files shouldn't be restored as they contain hardware specific stuff. Somewhere I heared the software.* files shouldn't be restored either as they will cause problems as well. Since microsoft doesn't mention those files, can anyone confirm this? Anyways, for the main problems/concerns: If I restore everything including the winnt dir with exception of the system.* and *.evt (and possibly the software.*) files will I be OK? Since for the shares and programs to run properly the registry will have to be restored as well, and AFAIK the registry contains hardware specific stuff as well (the restore will be from intel (x86) machines to intel (x86) machines). Will it cause problems to restore the registry? With Exchange and SQL in mind. The backup program supports the restore of the exhange store and other data as an option, but since the whole disk is backed up I might as well stop all unnecessary services (there won't be much installed besides NT, the service pack (the same as the original system had) and possibly the backup software (one customer uses NT backup, the other Backup Exec)) and restore the whole disk including registry (with exception of the above mentioned files) since that would completely restore Exchange and SQL as well right? In short, can I get away, with restoring the full system on different hardware, if I just leave the \winnt\system32\config\system.*/*.evt(/possibly software.*) files out? The tests we can do here at the moment don't cover everything and I need to be sure that when the time comes, the system will run as it should. All info is welcomed. In theory it seems so easy, but in practice I'll probably run into a lot of problems. Like with the hardware stuff in the registry, just leaving the \winnt dir out isn't an option either since a lot of programs will be placing DLL's in there, and there is no partial registry restore (AFAIK).
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