After a bit of digging, I eventually found a set of four Windows Server boot disks the CDs for Windows Server were not bootable and booted up into the repair console. Of course, having been through this once, I've now checked that all of the Windows servers I maintain have the Recovery Console installed and available at boot time. See below for details. If, when you reboot your server, you find the problem isn't resolved, you'll really wish that you had the Recovery Console installed but for now it's back to the floppy disks If your latest 'system' file is out of date like mine was, some parts of your system may be restored to a previous state and you may find that you have to fix some items manually.
However, at least I had a server that booted again. Don't copy the system. Booting from floppy disks is a slow process if you can even create or use them at all , so why not install the Windows Recovery Console on to your servers now?
To do this:. Windows Server installation disks are bootable so this isn't such a big issue for Windows machines. Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services. Privacy policy. Applications that request or perform backup and restore operations should use the following registry keys and values to communicate with each other or with features such as the Volume Shadow Copy Service VSS and Windows Backup:.
On Windows client platforms beginning with Windows 7, users are automatically prompted to configure the Windows Backup feature if they have not already done so. These notifications appear at computer startup time, beginning seven days after the operating system is installed. They also appear when the user plugs in a hard disk drive; in this case, the notifications appear immediately.
OEMs and developers of third-party backup applications can use the DisableMonitoring registry value to turn off these automatic notifications. The FilesNotToBackup registry key specifies the names of the files and directories that backup applications should not backup or restore.
Applications that perform volume-level backups generally do so by copying the entire volume at the block level, so they cannot honor the FilesNotToBackup registry key at backup time. Instead, they wait until restore time to delete the files that were not to be backed up.
In most cases, this is a reasonable strategy. For block-level volume backups, Windows Server Backup and the Windows Wbadmin utility honor the FilesNotToBackup registry key by deleting the appropriate files at restore time.
Applications and services can use this key to specify files to be deleted from newly created shadow copies. For more information, see Excluding Files from Shadow Copies. For block-level volume backups, Windows Server Backup honors the FilesNotToSnapshot registry key by deleting the appropriate files at restore time.
The IdleTimeout registry value specifies the amount of time, in seconds, that the VSS service will wait when it is idle. If this timeout value is reached and there are no tasks for it to perform, the VSS service will shut down. The KeysNotToRestore registry key specifies the names of the registry subkeys and values that backup applications should not restore.
For more information, see KeysNotToRestore. It is not necessary to honor the KeysNotToRestore registry key. For block-level volume backups, Windows Server Backup honors the KeysNotToRestore registry key by deleting the appropriate files at restore time.
The LastInstance registry value indicates that a bare-metal restore operation has been performed and that the volumes have been overwritten but not formatted. When a backup application performs a system state restore, it must indicate that it has done so by setting the LastRestoreId registry value.
If the entire boot and system volume are restored at the volume level, this value must not be set. If the LastRestoreId registry value does not exist, the backup application should create it under the following registry key:.
Say, we backup Windows R2 by using backup wizard. Then this backup can be restored to Windows R2? However you are not cut out, MS have a tool that enables you do this. Use the link below to fetch it. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Resources for IT Professionals. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access.
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