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Re: Disaster Recovery to dissimilar hardware

 
Antoine Veilleux
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Disaster Recovery to dissimilar hardware

I use a Proliant ML370 and I want to test a Disaster Recovery restore on another box that has not the same hardware as the server. The server is running Win2000 server and it is a domain controller. What could be the best practices to accomplish that ?
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Tom Mucha_1
Trusted Contributor

Re: Disaster Recovery to dissimilar hardware

The biggest problem we've had is getting the NICs to work after a restore... pain in the BUTT! This article shows promise, but I haven't had a chance to test it fully again. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;249694

I guess the problem is, during a restore, W2k will not allow third party drivers to be restored, which pretty much is useless since there are CPQ drivers everywhere.
Tom Mucha_1
Trusted Contributor

Re: Disaster Recovery to dissimilar hardware

This is the article that actually talks about the NIC drivers (the above one has a link to it)


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;810161

The change needs to be done BEFORE you do your backups.
Melinda Cooper
Frequent Advisor

Re: Disaster Recovery to dissimilar hardware

We did a successful Disaster Recovery on our Exchange Servers, you might check out MS Q article 297289.