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Can't Seem To Restore SBS 2011 Backup

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   It is a full image backup. No errors on the backup. I brought the image back to my office and tried restoring to a identical server. Here is what it does after restoring:

1) Goes in to chkdsk. Then reboots

2) You get the black screen where is is applying updated to the registry

    Then it goes in to "Preparing to update Windows" (what you see after a big Windows Update)

    Then it reboots

3) Crashes with blue screen of death

 

I have tired restoring to different servers with different drivers. I am frustrated. I would have thought restoring to an identical server would have been a piece of cake. Even when I do finally get it going it freezes up or runs so slow it can't be used. Any ideas?

 

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Hi Jim

Such issues should be investigated with our support team involved. One possible thing to try is perform recovery "as is", e.g. without resizing the partitions, to identical server and do _not_ perform Acronis Universal Restore operations - as part of them, there are old drivers (from originally backed up system) disabled in Windows registry which may be causing the symptoms, however without proper investigation, it's hard to guess what exactly might be wrong.

Thank you.

   Thanks Vasily. I restored the entire disk. No resizing and no Universal Restore. It was quite some time ago but I believe I had the same issue with a SBS 2008 system. I am putting this on the forum in hopes that some other user has encountered this issue and knows the cause.

   I did manage to get around it. I restored to a plain jane IDE drive. Once I got past the chkdsk it seemed to boot OK. For some reason (even though it is an identical server) it re-found a lot of new devices. I Updated the Adaptec drivers, re-backed up at that point and then restored to the SAS array. Seemed to work but it was a very time consuming process. Looking for a reason and a fix.