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Anyone with experience on MS Server 2016 Bare Metal restore to a Client
jmone:
Thanks for the help. I'm deleting all the partitions, and will try a restore again. Then I'm giving up and just doing a clean install.
wer:
Yeah, I don't have a lot of confidence that Essentials did the restore correctly.
If you haven't already, I would try following the instructions here:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-essentials/manage/restore-a-full-system-from-an-existing-client-computer-backup
If that doesn't work, I'd agree: do a clean install, restore your data. Then get a copy of Macrium Reflect. It works.
jmone:
Yeah I've read that info. At some point I'll just give up.
I find it "odd" that MS own backup service is so finicky..... I do love however that it keeps only unique clusters, so that backing say 5 PCs does not take 5 time the disc space. I also like that (in theory) one backup gives you BMR and access to all the files for selective restore across all the backups (so I can get a single file as it was from 1 year ago if needed). Turns out the BMR is not working for me.... at least I have access to all the files.
I guess I'll need to look at other options as the latest version of WS2019 Essentials has removed client backups altogether. What started as Home Server has got more and more complex, more expensive, and continued to drop features (first drive pooling now client restore).
I'll have a look at Macrium Reflect.
jmone:
...and the other thing I hate about Windows Server backup is when a Windows Client PC does a big update the connector breaks and you remember to reinstall it or the backups no longer trigger. Complete PITA.
jmone:
--- Quote from: jmone on March 08, 2021, 01:39:13 am ---I'm deleting all the partitions, and will try a restore again. Then I'm giving up and just doing a clean install.
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That failed the same way. I'll try (again) to do a clean install of W10 on the client PC then just restore the C: Drive from the server (but I'm pretty sure I've already tried this combo).....
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