Thread: Help with bare metal restore

How about swapping the disks so you have your original disk in the replacement Dell?

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"

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

I tried this before but I was getting tape read error on first record. Any other solutions? Thanks

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.

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.

So, problem solved then?