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Thread: Help with bare metal restore

Started 4 months, 1 week ago by khalil_noura
Hi, This is my first bare metal restore experience and I am having a hard time to get it to work. I lost a Dell Power Edge 1950 to a bad motherboard, Dell send us a replacement and I need to get it back to its original status. I have a full backup of the server. Please help with details how I can get this server back to life. Thanks.
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aukes replied 4 months, 1 week ago
How about swapping the disks so you have your original disk in the replacement Dell?

khalil_noura replied 4 months, 1 week ago
This machine was zapped with a power problem, Management didn't want to use any part form the bad machine and decided to shipped it back to Dell. My BOSS as we call him arounf here "Mr Perfect"

aukes replied 4 months, 1 week ago
I posted some things I would do in another thread, but I'm sure there are more and far better instructions on how to do it: http://forums.zmanda.com/showthread.php?p=7863

khalil_noura replied 4 months, 1 week ago
I tried this before but I was getting tape read error on first record. Any other solutions? Thanks

aukes replied 4 months, 1 week ago
Have you tried another tape? Are you restoring the tapes with the same tape unit with which the backups were created? Have you tried a cleaning tape before restoring data? If your tapes can not be read, there is no way to restore your machine. Perhaps convince your boss of bringing back the old machine and retrieve those hard disks.

khalil_noura replied 4 months, 1 week ago
I am able to restore from the tapes to the server with no problems. I restored the full backup back to the holding disk. The error doesn't indicate if the tape is bad.

aukes replied 4 months, 1 week ago
So, problem solved then?

 

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Help with bare metal restore
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I am able to restore from the tapes to the server with no problems. I restored the full backup back to the holding disk. The error doesn't indicate if the tape is bad.
aukes
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Help with bare metal restore
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So, problem solved then?

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