Windows 2008 SBS - bare metal restore/disaster recovery
I had landed in bit of trouble and no hope that I can fix this out. I am going to explain the same in detail. I am having a HP ProLiant DL380 G4 server. It is working on Windows 2008 SBS. This system is having a raid array. It comes with integrated Smart Arry 6i. The OS lies on RAID1. There are two 146GB drive and four 72GB on raid 0. Each array is having a single partition only. Now from last 5 months the server was working fine. I am trying to work on a new recovery plan that can help me to restore all things back in case of crash. The best thing many will recommend is to install everything from scratch. I am using the backup also. Is there a way by which I can completely restore the server through some bootable media. I am talking about everything. Not each and every file or OS separately.
Re: Windows 2008 SBS - bare metal restore/disaster recovery
Can you give info about this > Once I fixed that, the restore went fine. How did u fix it. I seems to have the same problem restore went fine yet the operating system wont kick. I think its that server 2008 boots based on the disks so I tried the option of update the bootcode. When I check with bootrec /scanos I always get - total identified windows installation. I also try delete bcd file and recreate it it created fine while finding a new os. So I think this boot disk is my problem : "Turns out, the RAID arrays on the spare server I was restoring to were created in the incorrect order such that what was presented to the OS as Disk 0 on the live server was now Disk 1 on the spare server, and vice versa (and disk0 and disk1 were different sizes)."