SBS2003 wont start - recovery help please

Hi everyone

I have a system running Windows SBS2003.. its on a RAID5 array which had
some failures and caused some system corruptions as a result.
I have repaired the array but SBS2003 wont start.
Basically it was saying that it is missing system32\config\system - so I
went into the recovery console and copied the system.sav file to system..
unfortunately the system.sav file is from when it was first installed.
There is no Emergency Repair Disk or Automated Recovery Disk available.
There are tape backups of SYSTEM STATE available.

I have confirmed the data is still okay on the array?

Whats the best way to recover this system? Would putting in a temporary
drive, doing a SBS2003 install on that temp drive, then restoring system
state from tape, and then copying the necessary files back to the original
sbs2003 installation fix this?

Reggie
Sat Jul 10 09:49:10 CDT 2004

Had a similar problem. We were using Veritas Backup Exec. Tried
everything, we even had an ERD. Eventually, after we were able to make the
RAID healthy, we had to reinstall the OS onto the current corrupted OS
(parallel restore wasn't possible on SBS.). After wards we installed the
backup utility and we had to restore from the last good backup. We also had
to reinstall Exchange server to clear up some errors.

Please note that this happened on SBS2k

Hope that helps.
Reggie Dones
"Ricardo Cloug" <richardshouse@Hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi everyone
>
> I have a system running Windows SBS2003.. its on a RAID5 array which
had
> some failures and caused some system corruptions as a result.
> I have repaired the array but SBS2003 wont start.
> Basically it was saying that it is missing system32\config\system - so I
> went into the recovery console and copied the system.sav file to system..
> unfortunately the system.sav file is from when it was first installed.
> There is no Emergency Repair Disk or Automated Recovery Disk available.
> There are tape backups of SYSTEM STATE available.
>
> I have confirmed the data is still okay on the array?
>
> Whats the best way to recover this system? Would putting in a
temporary
> drive, doing a SBS2003 install on that temp drive, then restoring system
> state from tape, and then copying the necessary files back to the original
> sbs2003 installation fix this?
>
>
>

Ricardo
Sat Jul 10 20:21:32 CDT 2004

i am thinking i will have to do something similar

if i do a reinstall of SBS2003 over itself, then restore using windows
backup the system state - will that bring it back to the point of last
backup?

the server was running exchange and sql and i dont want to jeopadise the sql
setup at all if possible



"Reggie Dones" <rfdones@argotech.net_nospam> wrote in message
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> Had a similar problem. We were using Veritas Backup Exec. Tried
> everything, we even had an ERD. Eventually, after we were able to make
the
> RAID healthy, we had to reinstall the OS onto the current corrupted OS
> (parallel restore wasn't possible on SBS.). After wards we installed the
> backup utility and we had to restore from the last good backup. We also
had
> to reinstall Exchange server to clear up some errors.
>
> Please note that this happened on SBS2k
>
> Hope that helps.
> Reggie Dones
> "Ricardo Cloug" <richardshouse@Hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:O5rk%23HmZEHA.808@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Hi everyone
> >
> > I have a system running Windows SBS2003.. its on a RAID5 array which
> had
> > some failures and caused some system corruptions as a result.
> > I have repaired the array but SBS2003 wont start.
> > Basically it was saying that it is missing system32\config\system - so I
> > went into the recovery console and copied the system.sav file to
system..
> > unfortunately the system.sav file is from when it was first installed.
> > There is no Emergency Repair Disk or Automated Recovery Disk available.
> > There are tape backups of SYSTEM STATE available.
> >
> > I have confirmed the data is still okay on the array?
> >
> > Whats the best way to recover this system? Would putting in a
> temporary
> > drive, doing a SBS2003 install on that temp drive, then restoring system
> > state from tape, and then copying the necessary files back to the
original
> > sbs2003 installation fix this?
> >
> >
> >
>
>

Reggie
Sun Jul 11 18:03:10 CDT 2004

It should work fine. If I remember correctly, we had to boot into AD
restore mode and restore AD and everything else that way.

Good luck,
Reggie Dones

"Ricardo Cloug" <richardshouse@Hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uMqJvXuZEHA.524@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> i am thinking i will have to do something similar
>
> if i do a reinstall of SBS2003 over itself, then restore using windows
> backup the system state - will that bring it back to the point of last
> backup?
>
> the server was running exchange and sql and i dont want to jeopadise the
sql
> setup at all if possible
>
>
>
> "Reggie Dones" <rfdones@argotech.net_nospam> wrote in message
> news:%23rPhN0oZEHA.808@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Had a similar problem. We were using Veritas Backup Exec. Tried
> > everything, we even had an ERD. Eventually, after we were able to make
> the
> > RAID healthy, we had to reinstall the OS onto the current corrupted OS
> > (parallel restore wasn't possible on SBS.). After wards we installed
the
> > backup utility and we had to restore from the last good backup. We also
> had
> > to reinstall Exchange server to clear up some errors.
> >
> > Please note that this happened on SBS2k
> >
> > Hope that helps.
> > Reggie Dones
> > "Ricardo Cloug" <richardshouse@Hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:O5rk%23HmZEHA.808@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > > Hi everyone
> > >
> > > I have a system running Windows SBS2003.. its on a RAID5 array
which
> > had
> > > some failures and caused some system corruptions as a result.
> > > I have repaired the array but SBS2003 wont start.
> > > Basically it was saying that it is missing system32\config\system - so
I
> > > went into the recovery console and copied the system.sav file to
> system..
> > > unfortunately the system.sav file is from when it was first installed.
> > > There is no Emergency Repair Disk or Automated Recovery Disk
available.
> > > There are tape backups of SYSTEM STATE available.
> > >
> > > I have confirmed the data is still okay on the array?
> > >
> > > Whats the best way to recover this system? Would putting in a
> > temporary
> > > drive, doing a SBS2003 install on that temp drive, then restoring
system
> > > state from tape, and then copying the necessary files back to the
> original
> > > sbs2003 installation fix this?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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"Ricardo Cloug" wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> I have a system running Windows SBS2003.. its on a RAID5 array which had
> some failures and caused some system corruptions as a result.
> I have repaired the array but SBS2003 wont start.
> Basically it was saying that it is missing system32\config\system - so I
> went into the recovery console and copied the system.sav file to system..
> unfortunately the system.sav file is from when it was first installed.
> There is no Emergency Repair Disk or Automated Recovery Disk available.
> There are tape backups of SYSTEM STATE available.
>
> I have confirmed the data is still okay on the array?
>
> Whats the best way to recover this system? Would putting in a temporary
> drive, doing a SBS2003 install on that temp drive, then restoring system
> state from tape, and then copying the necessary files back to the original
> sbs2003 installation fix this?
>
>
>
>