Re: "Time" Reseting the date on DR Domain controllers for a point in t
From: Paul McGuire (paulmcguire_at__no_spam_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/12/04
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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:56:33 -0500
All you should have to do is stop the windows time service. Then change the
time to what you need it to be. Set the service to manual so that when you
reboot the time will not sync.
HTh
Paul McGuire
"Mark J S" <Mark J S@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4D0F1B12-8787-4467-BDCD-FAF7E1470B1D@microsoft.com...
> Hi guys
>
> My company would like to test our DR site by replicating a disaster that
> happend mid week e.g. Wednesday. This would mean me restoring data as at
> Wednesday during the test that will be performed at a weekend.
>
> But the systems must believe it is in fact Wednesday. No problems for the
> restore but when the apps launch they will use the system date on the
> servers. So for this I must reset the date on the servers to be Wednesday
> for
> the apps to work properly with the data that has been restored. The apps
> then
> have to process the restore the day believing the day is Wednesday to
> finish
> processing.
>
> I have recently consolidated our DR W2k domain into our production W2k
> domain. Our production servers are in one W2k site (and different physical
> building) and our DR servers are in another site and building. I know that
> the W2k servers will pick up the time from the DC's so for this to work
> properly I must reset the date on the DC's.
>
> There I hit the problem (or so I think).... I know if DC's are running on
> different dates and times to each other all hell breaks loose and AD
> replication fails leading to all sorts of problems.
>
> Am I right in saying that there is no easy way to perform this test
> without
> having to break the WAN link to the DR site and isolate the domain
> controllers at the DR site?Surely doing this I have to transfer the FSMO
> roles to the DR site first? I would not like to reset the date back on a
> DC
> in a DR site and then potentially make changes to user accounts then have
> to
> reset the date forward to normality and attempt to resync with the
> production
> servers.
>
> I am thinking this is far too much hassle and potentially dangerous to my
> production environment.
>
> Has any one had to do the same? Am I making a mountain out of a mole hill
>
> Cheers all....
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