I was reading the “manual disaster recovery portion of windows computers” in symanctec Disaster prep section.
Simple question here about doing a full restore. Lets say you have windows 2003 standard edition email server hp ml 150 for example..that decides to take a nice crash one day
you get a new box, reinstall 2003 std,exchange..etc… don’t join it to domain or workgroup (according to the manual), also use same file format NTFS….etc
now here is where things get grey….per manual page 660 “Install Backup Exec for windows Servers to a directory other than where it was originally installed(this is a temporary installation) ……
here is my ?….(I tried other forums..no luck)….let’s say the original email server had the remote agent on it….the actual backup server has all the backups FULL on disk and an ultrium tape under devices….check
how would on go about restoring that data to the new box if there is no tape drive on that new box, you are not supposed to add it to domain or workgroup (according to the manual)…it says ” install backup exec for windows, click devices..etc and run restore from that device” (???)
isn’t there a huge gap missing? How will that new system know what “devices” to connect to if it only has a cd/dvd rom and usb port…also…how will it know to find the backkup server if it’s not on the lan or workgroup.