Restore help

[jebenson]

Hello all,

I am in a situation where I need to rebuild a server. I am running r11.1 with no agents, and can do a full backup on the current system. I have never had to do a complete restore before, and I was wondering if anybody had any tips, tricks or links to help me out. Basically I need to know everything. Some specific questions:

Do ArcServe and the tape drive need to be installed on the machine in question, or can I do such a restore over the network? (AS and the tape drive currently are on another machine in the same domain.)

Does ArcServe restore over the current OS files, even while the OS is running?

Will this actually work, or should I just plan on doing a manual rebuild of the entire server?

Thanks,
jeb

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[hemps37]

If you can get the server to connect to a state that you can connect to the network, then you can push the restore out from the Backup server. It will overwrite the current os setting and such.

You can also do disaster recovery but I don't think you've done the necessary steps prior to the server going down.

Hope this helps.