A Day in the Life of HA
So in my previous post I menetioned a slight problem, I thought I would share my log of the repair process in case you find yourself in a similar situation.
Disable Exchange Service, let’s not lose any mail in the process
Restore C Drive to alternate location on usb drive, just to have these files on hand, we know C: is hosed
Fly to Sunny California
Download update bios & firmware, burn to cd’s
Flash Intel Serverboard bios
Flash Intel Raid controller firmware
Boot to Shadow Protect IT Edition, to use it’s tools
Unfortunatley I had not had a chance to image this system yet.
Btw Storage Craft’s great support bailed me out in this disaster, as I lost my IT edition disk and they were able to provide an ISO first thing Monday morning.
Delete C partition
Create C partition bootable (sorry can’t do bootable)
Boot to sbs cd1 repair console
Bootfix, sucessful
Bootcfg, fails
Verify boot.ini
Copy files from alternate restore location on usb drive
Copy root files from backup to xp machine, remove attributes
Copy to root of server from repair console, ntldr snd ntdetect will still not copy
Boot to IT Edition again, find clean spot to install w2k3
Start gold w2k3 install to W:, not going to be time efficient
Contact kb get download of SBS R2 w/slipstream beta I just tested for them, Thanks Kevin !
Do Time bombed install to G:, no key
Boot to DSRM
Do system state from 6/24/07, pre original corruption
Disconnect Internet Cable
Boot to OS I hope, yippee it boots
Do online exchange restore of 7/27/07 bu, it fails
Do offline restore of the 3 chunks of mdbdata to original locations
Reboot, stores mounted :>)
Breathe
Verify mail via owa locally, we got mail
Connect Internet Cable let mail flow
Send and receive test message, we are talking to the world
Logon to bookkeeping station, ok
Test 4 QB Data Files, one needs to be rebuilt
Rebuild successful.
Logon to Kenny’s station, logon denied
Take off domain
Put on domain
Logon OK profiles intact
Logmein to remote, verify mail flows via Outlook Anywhere
Image Server with SP IT
Set backup to run tonight
Go to hotel for the evening, 11 hours is enough for one day
Logon to marketing station, logon denied
Take off domain
Put on domain
Logon OK profiles intact, CRM will not open, credential problem
Duh moment, I rolled system state back to before CRM rollup 2 was applied, system grumpy
Apply CRM rollup2 and reboot, CRM opens fine now
Logon to sales station, logon denied
Take off domain
Put on domain
Logon OK profiles intact
Logon to process station, logon denied
Take off domain
Put on domain
Logon OK profiles intact
Logon to lab station, Logon OK profiles intact
Logon to shipping station, logon denied
Take off domain
Put on domain
Logon OK profiles intact
Logon to accounting station, Logon OK profiles intact
Need 4 updates on server from wsus allow all 4 and reboot
Delete demo install and gold install used to restore system state
Reconfigure backup to run regularly
Re-enable offsite copy scheduled task
Verify Hazard Waste database is operational
Clear Logs
Grab jpg of drive layout save to C:\
Grab ipconfig /all save to C:\
Image again with Shadow Protect IT
Install Shadow Protect Server
Give Kenny the good news, no data lost everyone back online
Goto Bella Vista tonight to celebrate :>)
Tomorrow back to hot and humid North Carolina
August 1st, 2007 at 9:43 am
After visiting my friend Carl in the rehab facility (he fell and broke his neck almost a year ago) his wife Cathy and I made the 40 minute trip up the hill to Bella Vista, Boy dinner was great, the only thing missing was Carl, if you are ever in the bay area I highly recommend this wonderful restaurant. We started out with some slow food, a couple orders of Escargot followed by some Coquilles St. Jacques, then on to the best old fashioned hand tossed Caesar Salad you can find today. Then on to the main course, another almost extinct dish Steak Dianne prepared in the center of the dining area so you watch Victor’s expertise with the Flambé pan. Followed up with a lovely Soufflé Grand Marnier and washed down ( in Yiddish means to keep it company in your stomach) with a couple of double Espresso’s. Stop in and let Victor & John treat you like royalty. Tell them Andy from North Carolina sent you!