Netbackup Restore to same hardware

Using Netbackup to do an OS restore onto same hardware requires this procedure below.

Running W2koption.exe
1. Begin the recovery of the system by building the PC that you wish to recover. Follow the steps outlined in the Troubleshooting Guide in the section titled Disaster Recovery. (The links to the Troubleshooting Guides can be found in the Related Documents section below.)
2. Before the restore starts, run the w2koption with the following command syntax:
\VERITAS\Netbackup\bin\w2koption -restore -same_hardware 1
3. Then, restore the data files and the System_State. Do not reboot the server yet.
4. Repeat the w2koption command as done earlier.
\VERITAS\Netbackup\bin\w2koption -restore -same_hardware 1
5. Stop the NetBackup Client Service and verify the bpinetd.exe is no longer running.
6. Reboot the PC.

References: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH22365
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH56473

IIS "The Local Security Authority cannot be contacted"

This one was a strange one. Our WSS server crashed and rebooted. When it came back up again, users could not login to WSS or IIS and got the error above.

Turns out that due to security configuration we have CrashOnAuditFail set to 1 in the registry and when the server ran out of space, it could not log to the Security event log which caused the CrashOnAuditFail to be set to 2. This caused the server to refuse all, but Administrators to login.

To fix, free up disk space, reset CrashOnAuditFail = 1 and reboot server.

References: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832981