SAP recovery using windows backup (system state options)

[Former Member]

Hello Gurus,

I am trying to recover my SAP installation (4.6D, Windows 2003server,Oracl 9.20) on a backup server (disaster recovery test). Because the backup server is slight different from the production server (no ASR possibility ) I have done following steps:

1. system,oracle,logs disks backup using windows backup with system state option (i did it few days ago).

2. new WIN2003 installation and system restore from the backup (plus system state)

3. full database recovery basing on the last SAP offline backup under sapdba - result: successfull I can open and manage database under sapdba and Oracle tools

4. But....when I am trying to start sap the message server fails with following errors (dev_ms)

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trc file: "dev_ms", trc level: 1, release: "46D"

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[Thr 2280] Thu Sep 06 14:14:03 2007

[Thr 2280] MsSSetTrcLog: trc logging not active

[Thr 2280] relno 4640

[Thr 2280] patchlevel 0

[Thr 2280] patchno 2259

[Thr 2280] intno 0

[Thr 2280] pid 2276

***LOG Q01=> MsSInit, MSStart (Msg Server 1 2276) [msxxserv.c 1348]

[Thr 2280] ***LOG Q0I=> NiPServToNo: getservbyname [Thr 2280] [ninti.c 463]

***LOG Q0A=> NiIServToNo, NiPServToNo ( sapmsBRN) [nixxi_r.c 2357]

[Thr 2280] *** ERROR => MsCommInit: NiListen(sapmsBRN) (rc=NIESERV_UNKNOWN) [msxxserv.c 7393]

[Thr 2280] *** ERROR => MsSInit: MsSCommInit [msxxserv.c 1390]

[Thr 2280] *** ERROR => main: MsSInit [msxxserv.c 4157]

***LOG Q02=> MsSHalt, MSStop (Msg Server 2276) [msxxserv.c 4196]

If anybody have tried to restore SAP system in this way ?

How can I get more information about the message server error (maybe a different log file) ?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

just restore the file

%windir%\system32\drivers\etc\services

from your system backup to the same directory on the new machine.

regards

Peter

[Former Member]

Thanks ...............it works. I have not supposed that full system disk restore with system state options doesn't change the file.

Thanks again.