Netbackup system state restore windows 2003

Section I. Read the following notes carefully before you restore the System State: The System State should be restored in its entirety. To restore the System State To restore the Active Directory, restart the system, and press F8 during the boot process. F8 brings up a startup options menu. Press F8 upon restart if the system to which you are to restore is a Windows domain controller.

Otherwise, begin with step 4. From the startup options, select Directory Services Restore Mode and continue the boot process. Start the Backup, Archive, and Restore client interface. Click Select for Restore , and place a checkmark next to System State. Specify the restore destination by double-clicking the section beneath the ' Destination ' heading.

Specify overwrite existing files by selecting the ' Overwrite existing files ' radio button. Click the ' Start restore ' button to start the restore. The restored files will be found under the destination path specified above.

This restore will include the following directories depending on the selection :. Please note that this document is a translation from English, and may have been machine-translated. It is possible that updates have been made to the original version after this document was translated and published. Veritas does not guarantee the accuracy regarding the completeness of the translation. It may require to re-activate the Windows after the system is restored due to Microsoft's requirement.

Note: You may have to [re]install drivers even after a successful restore and reboot. For example, if NetBackup client was installed in default location of C drive during backup, please perform a Custom Install and install NetBackup client on D drive or E drive if there aren't any programs installed in those drives during backup. The same IP and hostname must be used. Boot the machine in "Active Directory Repair" mode before recovery. This option is available even if the machine is not joined to a domain.

For example, see picture below. A similar option should be present in the UEFI firmware of the destination server. Representation may be different.

Note: After the Restore job completes, the NetBackup process named bpinetd. It will perform the queued registry-merge tasks upon graceful shutdown of the process. Killing the process bpinetd. This will cause a post-restore boot failure. Also note that some systems will not need the secondary w2koption -restore operation.

If a recovery was attempted with this step and failed, perform a new recovery and skip the second w2koption -restore step the last step listed in the list above. Do NOT kill the processes. If it boots in Recovery Mode, please revert changes which were performed in msconfig at the beginning of restore Screenshot above.

Once the machine is up and running and connected to master and media, please go ahead and restore other data from other data partitions. Please note that this document is a translation from English, and may have been machine-translated. It is possible that updates have been made to the original version after this document was translated and published.

Veritas does not guarantee the accuracy regarding the completeness of the translation. You may also refer to the English Version of this knowledge base article for up-to-date information.

Support Knowledge base Article: Last Published: Ratings: 30 Product s : NetBackup. Pre-Requisites: This is for a client system restore only. This procedure will restore your computer's system files and data files to a pre-disaster state except those protected by one of the NetBackup database agents, such as the Exchange agent or SQL agent. If any of your data is protected by NetBackup agents, refer to the section on restoring the data protected by the agent before beginning disaster recovery.