scstock Posted January 10, 2018 Report Share Posted January 10, 2018 I have a basic question regarding creating a Disaster Recovery Disk in order to facilitate a Dissimilar Hardware Restore but I can't find the answer anywhere. Am I right in thinking that you need to create the Disaster Recovery Disk on the client PC, rather than the Server? If so that would mean installing the full version of Retrospect, and Windows ADK - not just the Client software - on each client machine, if only temporarily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scillonian Posted January 10, 2018 Report Share Posted January 10, 2018 You only need to create the Disaster Recovery Disk on the Backup Server. If you have a valid Disaster Recovery license on the Backup Server the functionality will be added to the Disaster Recovery Disk. When you boot the Client from the Disaster Recovery Disk the Dissimilar Hardware Restore will be available. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidHertzberg Posted January 13, 2018 Report Share Posted January 13, 2018 scstock, How does this thread relate to your previous thread on the subject of creating a Disaster Recovery Disk? Were you previously trying to create it on the client PC, or on the Backup Server? And please let us know if what Scillonian said above works for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scstock Posted January 13, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2018 Well, I'm a couple of stages on, but not quite there yet! Retrospect support had suggested uninstalling and re-installing to try and resolve why I couldn't create a DRD using Retrospect Server. I was wary of this as I don't want to spend ages re-creating all my Scripts etc. so I temporarily installed Retrospect Server And Windows ADK on another PC - using this I was able to create a Disaster Recovery USB Drive. I successfully booted the target PC (actually a Mac Mini running Bootcamp) with it and ran a Restore as a client from the Disaster Recovery Wizard. However, once completed, when I go Back to attempts the Adjust Drivers to new hardware step it reports that no valid OS can be found. The backup set is from a client running Vista. This led me to wonder initially if I had missed the point in how the DRD is created, hence my question above, but it seems I have done it the right way. So I now I have to figure out why it can't find the Vista OS in the restored system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scillonian Posted January 13, 2018 Report Share Posted January 13, 2018 2 hours ago, scstock said: I successfully booted the target PC (actually a Mac Mini running Bootcamp) with it and ran a Restore as a client from the Disaster Recovery Wizard. However, once completed, when I go Back to attempts the Adjust Drivers to new hardware step it reports that no valid OS can be found. The backup set is from a client running Vista. Are you running a version of Bootcamp on the Mac Mini that is compatible with Windows Vista? From what I have read Apple started to drop support for Windows Vista with version 3.2 and dropped it completely by version 4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidHertzberg Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 On 1/13/2018 at 4:26 PM, Scillonian said: Are you running a version of Bootcamp on the Mac Mini that is compatible with Windows Vista? From what I have read Apple started to drop support for Windows Vista with version 3.2 and dropped it completely by version 4. And here's one place (second paragraph and also here lower down in the same Wikipedia article) Scillonian could have read it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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