How to Restore server to another box ?

I installed a Windows Server 2008 on C: partition and then installed and
configured a number of our applications, all on C: partition (pretty time
consuming).
After that, I used the native Windows Server 2008 Backup utility to back it
up (i.e. C: partition and System State) to a folder on D: partition.
Consequently, I copied this backup folder from the D: partition to another
network share, for "just in case".

And ofcourse, last week, my server crashed (datal disk error) and I needed
to restore the saved backup onto another box. I quickly installed a basic
Windows 2008 server software and copied the saved backup folder from the
network share onto the D: drive on this new box.

However, when I tried to use WBADMIN to restore the backup, it could find /
recognize the backup.

Any idea ?

How to restore the system backup (i.e. System State and C: partition) onto
another box with basic Windows 2008 server installed ?

TIA

 

Hello TIA,

See the reply from David Shen in this posting:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com...n/thread/f61ce6da-0e06-4c7f-a42e-b552fb5bac9f

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> I installed a Windows Server 2008 on C: partition and then installed
> and
> configured a number of our applications, all on C: partition (pretty
> time
> consuming).
> After that, I used the native Windows Server 2008 Backup utility to
> back it
> up (i.e. C: partition and System State) to a folder on D: partition.
> Consequently, I copied this backup folder from the D: partition to
> another
> network share, for "just in case".
> And ofcourse, last week, my server crashed (datal disk error) and I
> needed to restore the saved backup onto another box. I quickly
> installed a basic Windows 2008 server software and copied the saved
> backup folder from the network share onto the D: drive on this new
> box.
>
> However, when I tried to use WBADMIN to restore the backup, it could
> find / recognize the backup.
>
> Any idea ?
>
> How to restore the system backup (i.e. System State and C: partition)
> onto another box with basic Windows 2008 server installed ?
>
> TIA
>