Bare Metal Restore of SBS 2008
Creation Date: January 29, 2010
Revision Date: November 01, 2010
Product: DS‑Client
Summary
Bare Metal Restore (BMR) is a restore process when the whole machine is being restored. Usually this type of restore is performed after a complete hardware failure or hardware upgrade.
Details
The Windows SBS 2008 has the following additional requirements to perform BMR
You must have an existing backed up File system backup set of the SBS machine you want to restore (including backup of C$, system state and services database). For more information, see the Knowledge Base article in
“Backing up Windows for Bare Metal Restore (BMR)”.
You must follow these instructions:
1. Install Windows SBS 2008 on the target restore machine (where the BMR will be performed).
2. Restart the target machine in the Directory Services Restore Mode (F8).
3. Login as a Local Administrator.
4. Clear User Account Control (UAC) from Control Panel > User Accounts.
5. Turn off the Firewall.
6. Go through the Windows services list and make sure only the following seventy-three (73) services are started (i.e. stop any other services that are running):
• Application Experience
• Application Host Helper Service
• Application Information
• Background Intelligent Transfer Service
• Base Filtering Engine
• Block Level Backup Engine Service
• Certificate Propagation
• COM+Event System
• Cryptographic Services
• DCOM Server Process Launcher
• Desktop Window Manager Session Manager
• DFS Namespace
• DFS Replication
• DHCP Client
• Diagnostic Policy Service
• Diagnostic System Host
• Distributed Transaction Coordinator
• DNS Client
• File Server Resource Manager
• FSCController
• FSCMonitor
• FSCStatisticsService
• FSEMailPickup
• Group Policy Client
• Human Interface Device Access
• IKE and AuthIP IPsec Keying Modules
• IP Helper
• IPsec Policy Agent
• KtmRm for Distributed Transaction Coordinator
• Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology Service
• Microsoft Exchange Transport
• Netlogon
• Network Connections
• Network List Service
• Network Location Awareness
• Network Policy Server
• Network Store Interface Service
• Plug and Play
• Print Spooler
• Remote Access Connection Manager
• Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
• Remote Registry
• RPC/HTTP Load Balancing Service
• Secondary logon
• Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol Service
• Security Accounts Manager
• Server
• Server Infrastructure License Service
• Shell Hardware Detection
• SQL Server VSS Writer
• SSDP Discovery
• System Event Notification Service
• Task scheduler
• TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
• Telephony
• Terminal Services
• Terminal Service Configuration
• Terminal Service UserMode Port Redirector
• Update Services
• UPnP Device Host
• User Profile Service
• Virtual Disk
• Windows Error Reporting Service
• Windows Event Log
• Windows Management Instrumentation
• Windows Process Activation Service
• Windows Remote Management (WS-Management)
• Windows SBS manager
• Windows SharePoint Services VSS Writer
• Windows Time
• Windows Update
• WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service
• Workstation
7. Perform the BMR to the target machine.
8. When the restore process has finished, restart the target machine.