Testing DPM disaster recovery scenarios using DPM 2012
Specifically for an application server which is running Server 2008 R2 with SQL Server 2008 R2 Express with a single SQL instance
The applicaiton server has a C: and E: drive and the SQL databases are stored on the E: drive in the standard path E:\program files\microsoft sql server\...\MSQL\Data\... the user database is called TestDB
Have used DPM Bare metal restore to first restore the application Server - this only restores the C: drive as expected - create a new E: drive with no data structure in place.
Using recover to original instance of SQL server (Overwrite database) option;
Can restore the Master database fine which recreates part of the E: drive structure and restores back the master.mdf and mastlog.ldf sucessfully.
Cannot restore the model or msdb databases and subsequently cant restore the TestDB database either.
On the application server after the master is restored the instance wont start because the model and msdb are not in place.
The same procedure for Exchange works great - restore BMR of system then restore and mount the mailbox - was expecting the same with SQL ?
Am I going about this the wrong way is there a better was way to do a disaster recovery of SQL using DPM ? all the documentation on SQL and DPM is about recovering an individual database - which works fine but nothing covering how to go about recovering a full instance of SQL.