Hi,
I tried to perform a bare metal recovery of a Windows Server 2012 R2 operating system backup but I can't get it to recover or access earlier restore points. Any help would be appreciated! I want to avoid reinstalling the OS *again*.
I have a hardware install of Windows Server 2012 R2 on drive (a), backup services saved to drive (b), and my server folders on RAID pool (c). I had verified that Windows Server Backup was executing daily and I was previously able to see several backups in the list of restore points.
I first tried to use the Windows Recovery Wizard to restore a "Volumes" recovery on drive (a); however, I can't select the "Source Volume" (C:) to equal the "Desination Volume" (C:). I just want to replace the current drive (a) with what's backed up. Why is this? Should this be working with source equal to destination?
Then, when restoring Windows using startup disk & recovery options, I can't see more than the last backup. Older restore points are not available. Plus, my local administrator password is not being accepted. So many things are going wrong...
The last thing I did was enable the Windows Server Essentials role and set it up, which did include picking a domain name. I wasn't happy with the ".local" TLD that was automatically created so I wanted to restore before Essentials was set up. Is this what is preventing a recovery?
Thanks!
Steve
I tried to perform a bare metal recovery of a Windows Server 2012 R2 operating system backup but I can't get it to recover or access earlier restore points. Any help would be appreciated! I want to avoid reinstalling the OS *again*.
I have a hardware install of Windows Server 2012 R2 on drive (a), backup services saved to drive (b), and my server folders on RAID pool (c). I had verified that Windows Server Backup was executing daily and I was previously able to see several backups in the list of restore points.
I first tried to use the Windows Recovery Wizard to restore a "Volumes" recovery on drive (a); however, I can't select the "Source Volume" (C:) to equal the "Desination Volume" (C:). I just want to replace the current drive (a) with what's backed up. Why is this? Should this be working with source equal to destination?
Then, when restoring Windows using startup disk & recovery options, I can't see more than the last backup. Older restore points are not available. Plus, my local administrator password is not being accepted. So many things are going wrong...
The last thing I did was enable the Windows Server Essentials role and set it up, which did include picking a domain name. I wasn't happy with the ".local" TLD that was automatically created so I wanted to restore before Essentials was set up. Is this what is preventing a recovery?
Thanks!
Steve
