I'm trying to restore a live production system to another server. My question is if this is possible or not. Here's the scenario:
1. We have a production ftp server that cannot be take offline because it's a customer facing server. Let's call it ftserver1
2. I performed an IDR of ftserver1 and created the ISO image. i then stopped and disabled the Backup Exec Remote Agent Service.
3. I then modified the winnt.sif file in the ISO image. I changed the MAC address and IP address to point to the new server - ftserver2 as I'm trying to restore to this server).
4. I booted ftserver2 with the IDR ISO, and was successful, all the way to where the remote server was able to kick off a restore job on our Backup Exec Server. However, the IDR restore job tried to restore to ftserver1 which couldn't connect.
The question i have is if it's possible to redirect that restore job to send it to ftserver2, rather than ftserver1. I didn't point the hosts and lmhosts file to ftserver2 as I didn't want to take that route... yet.
if anyone has any experience with unique situation, i would certainly appreciate any recommendations.
Thanks,
Syd
1. We have a production ftp server that cannot be take offline because it's a customer facing server. Let's call it ftserver1
2. I performed an IDR of ftserver1 and created the ISO image. i then stopped and disabled the Backup Exec Remote Agent Service.
3. I then modified the winnt.sif file in the ISO image. I changed the MAC address and IP address to point to the new server - ftserver2 as I'm trying to restore to this server).
4. I booted ftserver2 with the IDR ISO, and was successful, all the way to where the remote server was able to kick off a restore job on our Backup Exec Server. However, the IDR restore job tried to restore to ftserver1 which couldn't connect.
The question i have is if it's possible to redirect that restore job to send it to ftserver2, rather than ftserver1. I didn't point the hosts and lmhosts file to ftserver2 as I didn't want to take that route... yet.
if anyone has any experience with unique situation, i would certainly appreciate any recommendations.
Thanks,
Syd