System restore

Lanz

Lanz

Lanz

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When restoring a whole system from tape onto a fresh server, do I totally hotfix the new, fresh target server, or do I just install it upto the same Service Pack as the backed up server and let the restore sort out the hotfixes? (then run windows update once restored)

I'm restoring the damaged server to a new VM.

Its been years since I had to do a full system restore, and I'm a bit clueless.

Cheers
 
Well I got nothing to lose, as i've spent days now trying to get the original server working properly. Restoring is the last ditch effort.
 
I've already tried doing a system restore over the top of the existing damaged OS, but that didnt work, the system state doesnt restore properly, i think there's something fundementally wrong with the OS files so it's not even letting me overright properly. As before when I've done this, you get prompted something like "System has been restored, please restart" But Im getting nothing.
 
No, its one half of a load balanced iis server. So has lots of iis setting and stuff (tomcat etc).
 
The story is, it crashed at 2am one night last week. After a couple of cold boots it eventually did a chkdsk for about 5hrs. After that many services dont work, I cant get properties up for the network adapters, services say they are `stopping` but they never actually stop. Its pretty much screwed, I presume chkdsk repaired some system files that are needed, but I couldnt see any logs on what it repaired/deleted.
 
IIS metabase is saved on a share, it seems ok, but i'll also restore C:\windows once system state is restored.
 
I might go back to the week before, see if I have more luck.

It has lots of other bits installed, apache, coldfusion and some other stuff that I have no clue what it does.
 
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