Remote Disaster Recovery of a W2K-Box

[schmalzlocke]

Hello folks,
this one is mainly for ArcServeGuru, he said in thread

http://www.tek-tips.com/gviewthread.cfm/lev2/7/lev3/49/pid/478/qid/196972

(but all suggestions are welcome ;-)) :

".... ARCserve 2000 is quite good in local disaster recovery as long as it is fully patched, remote though for windows 2000 is a bit tricky, but if you follow the docco to the letter, then it works fine as well."

The docco says the following : "DR can only be performed locally on a Windows 2000 machine"

BTW, ArcServe is Version 2000 with Sp3 installed after DR.

I have tried a couple of times recovering a W2K Server using Remote DR (local on the server with a remote ArcServe server & its tape drive containing the DR session), but every time i get the same error : After inserting the machine specific / Network DR disk, a NIC is detected. When pressing ok, it asks for installation of an other NIC. Pressing cancel and ok will have the same effect : Errorbox with the failure "can't install two devices at the same time". (There is only one 3com NIC in the box !!)
Now, how can i get this to work (when it is possible) .. ?
Already thanks,
greetings
Schmalzlocke

 

[ARCserveGuru]

Hehehe, can it be they haven't updated the docco It does work remotely and I have made it work remotely on win 2K. Repeat I have made it work remotely.

Anyway, are there any error codes or anything about the error in the error box? Also, you should have 6 DR disks, the last one is the DR patch disk.

When it says about the NIC if you only have one then you must select "NO".

Anyway, happy remote DR'ing

Guru

 

[ARCserveGuru]

Ahem....

LO85118

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: NT -DISASTER RECOVERY UPGRADE PATCH
----------------------------------------------------
1. Bootable tape support for W2K (new for W2K) -
Includes support for HP auto changers also (for
NT4.0 and W2K)

2. Creating Bootable CD for W2K. With this bootable
CD the administrator can do a recovery for any W2K
machine on the network, with the machine specific
ARCserve DR floppy for that machine (new for W2K).

3. Remote DR (new for W2K).

4. DR for fiber channel environment (new for W2K).



See Point 3

This is in the explanation of SP3

Guru

 

[schmalzlocke]

Ok, thanx a lot, Guru !
I will try it on, after getting the new docco ;-)
greetings,
schmalzlocke