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Best restore method (Help! :( )

Updated: 21 May 2010 | 3 comments
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Hi Guys,

We recently got hit by a false positive on our anti virus software (not to mention any names) and it started to rename some of the Windows and .net system files on some of our servers. Lucky that the fix was just to rename the files back to the original names which we have done but one of our SQL servers was not fixed by this process.

Now my questions is what is the best way to recover it? I thought I could BMR the server to a different one keeping the existing one incase we needed it for any reason but backups have taken place since the corruption of the Windows file system so it will restore the corruption. Is there anyway you can trick BMR in to thinking that an older Image is the latest image for restore? could i just expire all the images until i get to the image I require?

Also would a straight system state and C drive restore on the existing server work not using the BMR enviroment?

The SQL server is a windows 2003 sp2 sql server with sql 2005 if it makes any difference.

Thanks in advance for you help!

NetBackup Version = 6.5.4 64x
NetBackup Master/Media Server = Windows 2003 64x R2 SP2
VCB Proxy = Windows 2003 64x R2 SP2