Use the following steps to run a disaster recovery operation on a remote Windows computer.
To run a disaster recovery operation on a remote Windows computer
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At the remote computer, install the original version of Windows.
This basic Windows installation is necessary to provide Backup Exec with a target to which it can restore the system. The computer name, Windows directory and the file system (such as NTFS) must be the same as the previous Windows installation. This basic installation will later be overwritten by the backed up version, which will restore your system configuration, application settings, and security settings.
If you are recovering from an entire hard disk failure, use Windows setup to partition and format the new disk during installation.
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At the media server, install the Backup Exec Remote Agent to the remote computer.
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From the navigation bar, click Devices, and then inventory the media containing the latest full backup of the computer to be recovered.
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Catalog the media containing the latest full backup of the computer to be recovered. If the subsequent differential/incremental backups are on separate media, catalog those also
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From the navigation bar, click Restore, and then select all sets from the full and incremental backups that contain logical drives on the hard disk. If differential backup sets are to be restored, select only the last differential set. Make sure you include System State or Shadow Copy components as part of the restore selections.
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On the Properties pane, under Settings, click General, and then select the following options:
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On the Properties pane, under Settings, click Advanced, and then select the appropriate options.
See Advanced options for restore jobs.
If you are restoring a computer that is the only domain controller in the domain or the entire domain is being rebuilt and this is the first domain controller, select the option Mark this server as the primary arbitrator for replication when restoring folders managed by the File Replication Service, or when restoring SYSVOL in System State.
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After the job completes, restart the remote computer.
Your computer’s operating system is now restored to its pre-disaster state. Your data files have been restored, except those protected by Backup Exec database agents.
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At the remote server, press F8 during startup.
A menu appears that allows you to diagnose and fix system startup problems.
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Select System State (Windows 2000 and later) or Shadow Copy (Windows 2003 and later) components as the restore selections.
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From the Properties pane, under Source, select Resource Credentials.
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Highlight the restore selection for the remote server and click New.
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Create a new logon account for this restore job. The account should have administrator privileges on the remote server.
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At this point, you can either choose to restore the entire Active Directory, or specific objects from the Active Directory:
See Microsoft’s documentation for running NTDSUTIL on Windows Server 2008/2008 R2.
Restore specific objects from the Active Directory by performing the following:
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Type Restore Subtree “ou=<OU Name>.dc=<domain name>,dc=<xxx> (without the quotation marks), and then press Enter, where <OU Name> is the name of the organizational unit you want to restore, <domain name> is the domain name the OU resides in, and <xxx> is the top level domain name of the domain controller, such as com, org, or net. You can do this as many times for as many objects you need to restore.
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Once you have finished restoring Active Directory information, exit NTDSUTIL.