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Symantec System Recovery 2011 and Exchange
Good afternoon all,
Has anyone had experience using Symantec System Recovery to back up an exchange server?
I've got a 2003 Exchange box that is running SSR 2011 and it backs up fine, but getting it to restore on a VM is failing.
Has anyone had experience using Symantec System Recovery to back up an exchange server?
I've got a 2003 Exchange box that is running SSR 2011 and it backs up fine, but getting it to restore on a VM is failing.
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Ok,
Currently the SSR 2011 takes a full server snapshot including VSS. This includes a drive c, d and e. this is a physical box not a VM.
The snapshot completes 100% successful according to SSR 2011.
The purpose is so that if I have a physical server crash, I can bring the last good snapshot online via my 2008 hyper V server if needed until the repairs can be completed on the physical box.
The physical box is running Windows 2003 Standard.
Regards,
Brian
Currently the SSR 2011 takes a full server snapshot including VSS. This includes a drive c, d and e. this is a physical box not a VM.
The snapshot completes 100% successful according to SSR 2011.
The purpose is so that if I have a physical server crash, I can bring the last good snapshot online via my 2008 hyper V server if needed until the repairs can be completed on the physical box.
The physical box is running Windows 2003 Standard.
Regards,
Brian
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The image will mount successfully, then start loading, it takes a very long time going through boot up then when it gets to the login it will spend days logging in and never successfully log in to a desktop. If I run it in safe mode, it will reach the desktop with no trouble.
I'll try an ESXi box.
I'll try an ESXi box.
If you're doing this from a physical server you may need to disable all the hardware specific services.
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Paulsolov,
I'm having trouble getting to the services msc as the OS never finishes loading to the desktop. Can this be done in safe mode and still apply to the re-boot ?
I'm having trouble getting to the services msc as the OS never finishes loading to the desktop. Can this be done in safe mode and still apply to the re-boot ?
try to load in safe mode, get into services and disable any HP, Dell, etc.. services.
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Working on that now
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Still isnt working, I think it may be that there is just too much happening on this server.
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Any other ideas Paul ?
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Symantecs built in tool
Try this...
Get a iso of the recovery disk, mount to a VM and map to a the image as you would a physical server. You may need to install vmware scsi driver for the boot device.
If that fails see if you can downgrade to version 8.5. With 8.5 you can use vmware converter to natively pull the image into vCenter/ESX host.
Get a iso of the recovery disk, mount to a VM and map to a the image as you would a physical server. You may need to install vmware scsi driver for the boot device.
If that fails see if you can downgrade to version 8.5. With 8.5 you can use vmware converter to natively pull the image into vCenter/ESX host.
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I'll try that.
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Still does not work properly. I'm going to close this thread as unsolved
are you trying yo restore mabilx, database or the entire server ? is it running on VM ? if so, do you have an image based backup ?