Retrospect 7, Disaster Recovery and Server 2003

[FSIWEBS]

We are running Retrospect 7 Multi-server and are trying to do a Disaster Recovery to a Windows Server 2003 machine via the Disaster Recovery CD-r.

 

The whole process seemed to go well until the restore was complete and we were told to reboot. Upon reboot, I received the error Windows cannot find windows\system32\config\system

 

So... I recovery consoled in and edited the boot.ini so that I could could boot to the "temporary OS"

 

Now I can boot the computer but it's only in the "Temporary OS" mode.. retrospect hasnt cleaned up the filesystem or deleted the temorary OS.

 

It looks like all of my files have been restored, but the OS is broken, does anyone have any suggestions on how to jump start the Disaster recovery process?

 

 

fsiwebs

[natew]

Hi

 

Have you rebooted into directory services restore mode? If so, did the Retrospect helper service start and prompt you to reboot?

 

If the helper service does not start in directory services restore mode manually start it.

 

Thanks

Nate

[FSIWEBS]

Thanks for the reply Nate,

 

I cannot boot into the restored OS using any method, Directory Services restore or otherwise, it always goes right back to Windows cannot find windows\system32\config\system .

 

 

Any other ideas ?

 

 

 

FSIWEBS

[natew]

Hi

 

As you may have guessed the directory in question contains the registry/active directory. It sounds like this directory was not successfully restored.

 

Were there any errors when you ran the backup?

Are you restoring to the same hardware you backed up from?

 

At this point you may need to run another restore using a different backup snapshot. This snapshot should contain another copy of the files in question.

 

Thanks

Nate