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Has anyone ever completed a BMR of a w2k8 system without the ISO?
Has anyone ever completed a BMR of a w2k8 system without the ISO?
Is it possible?
The wintel team is having issues with the enviroment thus the iso is having a issue with the disks (san)..
Thanks.....
Joe Despres
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March 27th, 2012 12:00
Unfortunately the blades do not have a cdrom.....
And I'm guessing now..... they are going to have to fix the env....
Thanks!
Joe Despres
eromanow1
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March 27th, 2012 12:00
Joe,
Using ISO is the only Microsoft supported way of recovering Windows 2008.
If you were doing ASR backups through Avamar, this will be the only way of recovering system state.
If you are unable to connect to SAN to get boot up from ISO, please boot up from CD.
Hope it helps
Ewa Romanowicz
Deepu83
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June 9th, 2012 09:00
Hi
Did you get success in restoring the win2k8 server with out iSO or CD if so can you please help me out steps to do it ?
jdespres
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June 16th, 2012 05:00
no success...........
Deepu83
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June 26th, 2012 15:00
And did any one try to restore system state with out ISO on WIn08 server what i am trying to achieve here is do the system state restore and then do the drives later ?
is it possible to do that way
Deepu83
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June 26th, 2012 15:00
Hi
We are trying to restore a server which consists of C,D( Local) and F drive from SAN (Network drive) using ISO image does it make any difference with the SAN drives when the server boots up ?
thank you.
ionthegeek
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June 29th, 2012 09:00
System State recovery on Windows Server 2008 requires the ISO. This is a Microsoft limitation -- Avamar makes use of Microsoft VSS Automated System Recovery (ASR) for system state restores. There is a fair amount of documentation on how ASR works available in the following article on MSDN:
Using VSS Automated System Recovery for Disaster Recovery
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa384630%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
The System State recovery will restore any volumes that are considered critical by the Operating System. This includes the volume(s) where the boot and root partitions are stored as well as the partitions where any software that runs as a system service is installed. Normally a System State recovery is performed in two stages -- first, the restore of System State using the ASR ISO, then the restore of any data volumes, databases, application data, etc..