Restoring Security and Sharing info to a File Server
Gilly-Bhoy
October 15th, 2009
Hi All,
User has a file server connected to a SAN.
One mirror on the server with the OS installed (2003) and the rest of the drives are on a SAN.
They have been having problems with the OS so they want to wipe the mirror and re-install Windows 2003.
What steps need to be taken afterwards to restore:
-Security on the file shares (perhaps this will be intact?)
-The shares that were previously setup.
Server is protected by Backup Exec 11d 7170 and BESR 8.5.3
Thanks,
Gilly
Filed under: Backup Exec - 11.x, Backup Exec, Basics, Best Practice, Features, Restore, Tip/How to, Backup and Archiving
We had an issue a couple of
We had an issue a couple of months ago when a server crashed catastrophically. No data!
We configured the server to base OS level, and then did a normal restore. All the user data was restored, along with the security on the shares and folders.
No other work was done.
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Thanks Chris,
My worry is that the OS is acting up and I don't want to restore any "funnies".
I wonder would restoring the registry over the vanilla OS work?
I have there server test recovered here so I can mess around with it to a degree!
Cheers,
Gilly
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The shared permissions are
The shared permissions are stored on following registry key and this needs to be protected and then restored back once the server has been rebuilt;
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver\Shares
Please consult Microsoft documentation on lanmanserver for more details. I would not advise using Backup Exec for this, because BE would require restore of entire system state for registry. But, if you are only concerned with shares, you would rather look for protecting lanmanserver registry key and restore the same after you are done with rebuilding the server, so that old shares and permissions are recognized.
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