Ghost Solution Suite

After months of abuse, my dear GSS computer decided to take an early retirement this morning.  Now I can no longer boot into windows so I guess it is too late to run the backup scripts.  The good thing is that I could still load up bart's PE and copy files on the hard drive.  Knowing I could not run any backup scripts to make transfering GSS easier....what files would I need to copy from the old machine to a new one?


Message Edited by Comet on 02-01-2008 01:56 PM

Unfortunately your recovery options are pretty limited, because the randomly-generated password for the server's database is stored in an encrypted section of the registry (in what Windows calls local machine secrets database). Getting that data back from a non-bootable system is really, really hard, to the point where it's better to spend the time just rebuilding a fresh database.

As long as you get the server's identity key files pubkey.crt and privkey.crt, and you load those into the replacement server, the clients should reconnect to the replacement server and reappear in its console. You'll have to rebuild the task definitions and any custom inventory queries from there on, but since you'll probably be able to recover the image files and such from the old server using BartPE.