95a\NT dual boot\arcserve

[JeanneD]

have friend who is try to use his arcserve
disaster recovery\restore from his original 4gb scsi HD (2 part.) dual boot to restore whole system to his new 18gb scsi drive... no matter what we've tried so far, the partitions either come out wrong or get corrupted... we tried
a 2gb 95 fat16 part\4gb NT, rest left temp dead for now, we tried partition magic, fdisk..all diff variations in size\partitions..If we let arcserve do it itself it makes a bunch of partitons but they
act corrupted... what is the right way to restore from a disaster recovery backup dual boot to such a large disk from an arcserve backup? I don't remember arcserve ver # but it was the newest one as of about 3 mos ago.

[This message has been edited by JeanneD (edited April 07, 1999).]

[wlm]

Maybe your dualboot HD is partitioned: 1=fat16...2=NTFS. How is your 18 gig formated? In addition your sector sizes are going to be different. Does your old drive have a dos partition?

[Damned Angel]

ever hear of ghost??

[TRICPLAYER]

DRIVE COPY OR BETTER STILL DRIVE IMAGE WILL
TRANSFER EVERY THING FROM ONE DRIVE TO ANOTHER.

[JeanneD]

yes i use ghost. He is required by govt contract to be able to restore this way as part of a disaster recovery plan. He runs several removable drives interchangably but one always gets locked up and he needs to be able to restore from tape between diff size drives. The problem is the size of the drive with NT and arcserve. I finally it figured out back then, forgot about it till I just read this again. He has to be able to do frequent full backups and this is the way they wanted it, so I had to work with it. ghost is just really for drive copying and stuff not really for constant disaster recovery capability. Not my choice at all to do it this way but......
vlm...yes thats how old drive was, and what i tried to do with new one both with larger ND same size PARTS. Part of the problem was arcserve asks for NT setup disks and NT didn't recognize larger than 8gb drive at all.
Thanks for the responses



[This message has been edited by JeanneD (edited November 10, 1999).]

[awt586]

Disaster Recovery only pertains to the actual machine it was created for. When you swapped Drives, it ceased being the same machine the "Recovery" was made for. You are going to have to at least setup Win95 and NT, install Arcserve and restore from that the data needed.