Hi,
I am in the process of upgrading our Disconnected WSUS Network up.
My new configuration is 1 Server running 2012 Datacentre which hosts our online WSUS server and 1 Windows 7 Enterprise PC (both in a workgroup) in the same subnet which has a bluray "robot" burner to burn the actual updates attached to it.
I have to use physical media due to the security policies in place. My "disconnected" Server is running Server 2008 R2 and is in a domain.
The problem I have is that previously I used ntbackup on our 2003 R2 Internet connected server, created the full or incremental backup as needed and transferred it to our Server 2008 R2 domain computer. I then used the ntbackup tool created for server
2008 to extract the updates. This has worked fine.
I thought with Server 2012 R2 I could just use the Windows Server Backup feature as a direct replacement for Ntbackup and transfer the backup. However when I transfer the backup and attempt to open it on my 2008 R2 server I get a message that the global
catalog is corrupted. I tried this a couple of time to make sure I didn't have bad disc's and to rule out a dodgy burner.
I have now spent the week researching how to fix this and have come to the conclusion that the 2012 backup file is not compatible with the 2008 version of Windows Server Backup.
I have attempted to recover the catalog using http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725765.aspx but don't get the option too. I have also ran up some VM's on my test lab with the same configuration and attempted to transfer a couple of MB and these
failed instead of the 86GB i used initially in work.
Since I failed at this route I have tried to find another program that can accomplish what I need but have reached a dead end. I have tried Rich copy but this fails to copy the ACL's over. I have tried Winrar but I'm not convinced about the ability
to do a full and incremental backups. Have also tried wrysnc but again this didn't work.
Any help with what programs other people use would be very very appreciated.
Thanks
Ray