Gary Dewrell
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Need to restore backup of physical macine to VMWare VM
Due to hardware failure I need to restore a backup of a physical box to a VM.
I created the new VM using the same OS (Server 2003 Standard)
I restored the backups to the VMs But now I get
I first got a "load needed DLLs for hal"
I managed to get a copy of the hal for the fresh stage and copied it to the VM.
Now I get "Corrupt or missing c:\windows\system32\"
Any help would be appreciated.
I created the new VM using the same OS (Server 2003 Standard)
I restored the backups to the VMs But now I get
I first got a "load needed DLLs for hal"
I managed to get a copy of the hal for the fresh stage and copied it to the VM.
Now I get "Corrupt or missing c:\windows\system32\"
Any help would be appreciated.
What kind of backup is that? What software?
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EMC Avamar Disk Backup Solution.
The restored OS will see the VM as new hardware. You could do a repair install but imho you'd be better doing a fresh install and just restoring whatever data files you needed as a separate thing.
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We got it up for the most part. Having some weird application errors but we are working on it.
I think what we were doing wrong was not setting the overwrite option in Avamar when doing the OS restore.
Thanks guys.
I think what we were doing wrong was not setting the overwrite option in Avamar when doing the OS restore.
Thanks guys.
Ah..yes, that could very well be it.
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