recover / restore a windows 2008 server
this is vmware server hosted virtual machine , co-work installed a wireless modem (3G) driver on it. the next day it stopped responding . the server keeps telling me a server kernel file is missing, and rebooting in a circle.
luckily he did a vmware snapshot ( only 1 snapshot in vmware server 2.0 ?), before the changes...
so I reverted to the snapshot .... the server 2008 started fine ,... but I can't open the SCOM 2007 SP1 console. it crashed on a .net error.
I tried sfc /scannow on this windows 2008 server
but we need SCOM working, its the whole purpose of this server.
we had this server's last sunday's windows server backup.
I decidied to do a system restore of system state.
hark.... wbadmin cmd line options, I will list all versions of windows server backup and then use the correct version number to start the restore , it took about 2 hours in this case, and luckily there is no error in the system state restore error log
after a restart, the SCOM 2007 SP1 console is working again.
there is a problem with the SDK service then, it said it can't write to the security log.
so in gpedit.msc
change the users' permission to be able to do security audit.
this is vmware server hosted virtual machine , co-work installed a wireless modem (3G) driver on it. the next day it stopped responding . the server keeps telling me a server kernel file is missing, and rebooting in a circle.
luckily he did a vmware snapshot ( only 1 snapshot in vmware server 2.0 ?), before the changes...
so I reverted to the snapshot .... the server 2008 started fine ,... but I can't open the SCOM 2007 SP1 console. it crashed on a .net error.
I tried sfc /scannow on this windows 2008 server
but we need SCOM working, its the whole purpose of this server.
we had this server's last sunday's windows server backup.
I decidied to do a system restore of system state.
hark.... wbadmin cmd line options, I will list all versions of windows server backup and then use the correct version number to start the restore , it took about 2 hours in this case, and luckily there is no error in the system state restore error log
after a restart, the SCOM 2007 SP1 console is working again.
there is a problem with the SDK service then, it said it can't write to the security log.
so in gpedit.msc
change the users' permission to be able to do security audit.
