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Guest Boxington Headmaker
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I have been advised to reinstall the SP2 service pack to a server that is

running (a slipstreamed install of) Win2k3 R2 SP2, due to a problem with

backing up files with Symantec backup exec. (See

http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/293132.htm)

 

If I do reapply SP2, will I then be prompted to re-install all the post SP2

updates?

 

Is there anything that I should be aware of before attempting this?

 

Many thanks,

Box

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Guest dwhagerman
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RE: Re-applying SP2 to server 2003 R2

 

I had to reinstall SP2 for exactly the same reason, and no, it did not affect

any other updates.

 

"Boxington Headmaker" wrote:

> I have been advised to reinstall the SP2 service pack to a server that is

> running (a slipstreamed install of) Win2k3 R2 SP2, due to a problem with

> backing up files with Symantec backup exec. (See

> http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/293132.htm)

>

> If I do reapply SP2, will I then be prompted to re-install all the post SP2

> updates?

>

> Is there anything that I should be aware of before attempting this?

>

> Many thanks,

> Box

>

>

>

Guest Boxington Headmaker
Posted

Re: Re-applying SP2 to server 2003 R2

 

"dwhagerman" <dwhagerman@news.postalias> wrote in message

news:B49CDC30-01ED-4CC3-885A-796195467B08@microsoft.com...

>I had to reinstall SP2 for exactly the same reason, and no, it did not

>affect

> any other updates.

 

Many thanks for your reply. I did the update, and it didn't seem to affect

anything (update wise), but it didn't solve my problem either! Turns out

that you have to backup a DFSR share from under shadow copy components, not

just from the machine's D: drive. If you try to backup then BackupExec

backs up the folder list, but no files even though it reports that it has

backed up sucessfully.

 

Cheers,

Box


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