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PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 2:54 am    Post subject: wbadmin restoration question Reply with quote

Hi,

I have a question about restoring a baremetal/system state backup to a new machine.

- Does baremetal or system state backup backup the RAID configurations?

- Does the new machine have to have the same hardware specs as with the machine where the backup came from?

- Does the new machine need to have the same raid configuration or harddisk size as the machine where the backup came from?


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 6:07 am    Post subject: Re: wbadmin restoration question Reply with quote

- Does baremetal or system state backup backup the RAID configurations?
No - most backup software only will back up data at the OS level

- Does the new machine have to have the same hardware specs as with the machine where the backup came from?
This depends on your backup software. Most backup platforms can restore to different types of hardware

- Does the new machine need to have the same raid configuration or harddisk size as the machine where the backup came from?
No
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 8:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm using windows server backup which is a feature of windows server 2008. So does this restore to different hardware types?
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 10:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It can be done. You will need to load the appropriate drivers during the restore. The following link has complete instructions:

http://www.wbadmin.info/articles/howto-bare-metal-restores-windows-server-2008-backup.html
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks! This is very informative. I have done a baremetal restore as indicated on the link you provided and im getting an error.

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Windows cannot restore a system image to a computer that has different firmware.The system image was created on a computer using EFI and this computer is using BIOS.


The machines (PC) are of the same model. HP compaq 6200. The source of the backup has a windows server 2008 OS installed. Looking at the source machine it has an EFI partition.

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