Randy
Selecting ALD will include the system state.
But for some systems, where you do not want to include all the drives,
system state (win2k) or shadow copy comp. (win2k3) must be selected.
just selecting the C: drive will not help in a restore scenario.
S.
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From: Randy Samora [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 9:22 PM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external)
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
I'm using the All Local Drives directive. Does it make a difference to
list Shadow Copy Components separately?
From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:56 AM
To: Randy Samora; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
Randy
In the backup policy where this client belongs, are you selecting the
"Shadow Copy Components" directive?
S.
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Samora
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:21 PM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restoring Shadow Copy Component/System State
Part of my requirements are test restores of critical boxes in a lab
environment. The lab is isolated and when I restore a client, there's
not really much we can test because the client looks for the production
network. Today I had to restore a Windows 2003 Server in the production
environment and most of the registry wasn't restored; services and other
objects were missing. With the test restores, I always had the option
of doing an ntbackup of the System State and then I would run a full
backup of the client. I'd take my tape to the lab, run a full restore,
but before I rebooted the restored client, I restored the ntbackup of
the System State (Shadow Copy Component.) That seemed to work just
fine. But today when the server blew up, there was no opportunity to do
an ntbackup of the SS first. I asked Symantec last year if the ntbackup
was still needed and they said no, a full backup and restore should
recover the client. I just never had the chance to test that theory.
Am I missing a step? I installed the OS from a basic CD install, loaded
the NBU client, and then did a full restore. But it's as if the system
state was never restored so I'm wondering if I'm even backing it up.
How can I tell? Do I need VSS or VSP activated in order to get a good
copy of the system state? We turned VSP off over a year ago because we
were having problems with the orphaned cache files. I've never gone
back and changed the setting on most of the clients and my plans were to
start using VSS but haven't gotten to that task either. Is there a
trick or an added step to getting a good backup of the system state on a
Windows 2003 Server server or is there a trick to restoring it?
Thanks,
Randy
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