Disaster recovery / System Restore
Well to make a long story short we have a single Dell Power Edge 1800 with Windows SBS 2003 server with 2 mirrored drives (RAID 1). I went on vacation leaving a solid server that’s been up for a few years and came back to an email saying it went down because of a bad hard drive. My non IT professional co workers called Dell because the HD array alarm was going off and which was ok we have support and they can just come out and replace a drive or something. So they came out and couldn’t recover the array and lost everything they tell me. They replaced the controller and the bad drive and the system now is ready for re installation and restore.
Note:
They don’t pay for my cell phone and cut my sweet back up server out of my budget. (in case you were wondering).
So my I have a some what current full back up but the drives were partitioned and I don’t think I backed up partition info…..
Tomorrow is my first day back and I’m going to do the restore… Any advice?
Thanks
Pat
Well to make a long story short we have a single Dell Power Edge 1800 with Windows SBS 2003 server with 2 mirrored drives (RAID 1). I went on vacation leaving a solid server that’s been up for a few years and came back to an email saying it went down because of a bad hard drive. My non IT professional co workers called Dell because the HD array alarm was going off and which was ok we have support and they can just come out and replace a drive or something. So they came out and couldn’t recover the array and lost everything they tell me. They replaced the controller and the bad drive and the system now is ready for re installation and restore.
Note:
They don’t pay for my cell phone and cut my sweet back up server out of my budget. (in case you were wondering).
So my I have a some what current full back up but the drives were partitioned and I don’t think I backed up partition info…..
Tomorrow is my first day back and I’m going to do the restore… Any advice?
Thanks
Pat