Restore shares from tape to another server

[bartibog]

Hi, I need to restore some data from tape from server1 to server2(server1 is not available).I would like to have the shares associated with the data. can I restore the registry file of server1 to some temp location and edit it to retrieve the share info?

THANKS for any suggestions!

Sbishop

 

[tfg13]

What type of backup are you running? NTbackup, or a 3rd party solution?

 

[bartibog]

Veritas Backup Exec 10D

It looks like I can't restore the system registry from a file. it's in the system state.

i'm at a lost!

Sbishop

 

[monsterjta]

can I restore the registry file of server1 to some temp location and edit it to retrieve the share info?

What share info are you referring to? Locations? Security? Groups?

Hope This Helps,

Good Luck!

 

[tfg13]

You won't be able to restore the system state (you could, but you'll really mess up the 2nd system), but should be able to restore the data from those directories....

 

[bartibog]

restoring data, no problem!
But i'm also trying to restore the windows share's associated with that data.

Monsterjta, file shares, including share name, location and permissions!

THANKS

Sbishop

 

[58sniper]

You'll likely need to recreate the shares manually.

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[monsterjta]

I'm not sure if you'll be able to extrapulate the share permission information if the server is down. Hopefully, you have your users neatly placed into security groups and can just assign them to the respective shares.

Regardless of the previous share location, you'll need to re-map the drives or connections to the new location. Unless you were to create an alias in DNS, pointing the old servername to the new servername.

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet001\Services\Lanmanserver\Shares

This is the key that contains your share names on your file server. If you can somehow restore this key to another machine if only to collect the share names, it might be worth a go. Don't forget to backup your original key and restore it when finished!

Hope This Helps,

Good Luck!

 

[58sniper]

Keeping in mind that that would restore shares based on where they were originally on the first server. You've still got rights issues to worry about.

Pat Richard, MCSE MCSA:Messaging CNA
Microsoft Exchange MVP
Want to know how email works? Read for yourself -

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt

 

[bartibog]

the key that monsterjta mentioned is the key I need to retrive from tape. I think the only way is to restore the server to a temp server just to recover the key!

Thanks Guys for all the help

58sniper, I do believe the key also contains the rights too.!

Sbishop

 

[monsterjta]

bartibog, it does contain the security key (binary data) too. I've never attempted to import this kind registry key, so let me know how things work out for you!

Hope This Helps,

Good Luck!