Arcserve 2000 (7.0)

[bilbonvidia]

Hi,

Is this adequate for backing up a W2K3 server? Would the system state etc come back ok or should I upgrade to a later version? Thanks.

 

[ntinlin]

I know that AS2000 agent won't do system state of a remote system, and AS2000 is not supported on W2003 anyway.

So you might want to upgrade. Don't know where you are but in UK at present the full version of AS11.5 is cheaper than an upgrade.
AS only really gets expensive when you have to upgrade / add agents for XC, OFA etc.

 

[bilbonvidia]

Has anyone done a complete restore of a 2003 DC server using as2000?

 

[davidmichel]

don't think so, ARCserve 2000 does not support Windows 2003.

 

[bilbonvidia]

I see on the CA websites server 2003 is not under supported OS's for arcserve 2000. The thing is it is running on a 2003 domain controller(upgraded from 2000 originally nt4) here and is used as the backup solution. Test restores of Data are fine. I just wonder would it bring the local system state back if needed and has anyone here done it before?

 

[davidmichel]

System State was totally unknown when ARCserve 2000 was developed so it is highly doubtful it will be restored correctly.

 

[bilbonvidia]

ey? system state is an option to be backed up as is made up of sysvol and registry etc within arcserve 2000,. Also is it not used to backup windows 2000 system state no problem?

 

[bilbonvidia]

I am still non the wiser with this, has anyone since tried restoring a 2k3 DC with arcserve 2000? I can't test it unfortunately.

At the moment I am backing up the system state once a month with ntbackup just in case.

 

[olliday]

There are 100% chances to fail, arcserve 7 was not made to restore AD.

 

[Cyklops]

ARCserve 2000 supports Windows 2000 servers so it is capabable of backing up the Windows 2000 System State (which includes the AD on Domain Controllers), but it does NOT support Windows 2003 Server Systems. Please don't even think about taking the risk of data loss by backing up servers with an unsupported ARCserve version.

regards

 

[bilbonvidia]

Now using ntbackup to back up everything until others decide they will fork out for an upgrade.