Re: Failed DC
- From: "ptwilliams" <ptw2001@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 23:22:27 +0100
> Thanks. So...does AD check itself before replication?
I can't remember the exact process, but if there's corruption that DC will
kind of isolate itself --it won't replicate.
> And for another side note - not that I would EVER try this in a production
> environment...What would happen if you grabbed a copy of AD from a good
> DC, in AD recovery console, and copied it to the server having
> problems........
Ha ha! Interesting question. I don't know. I would guess that if you
simply copied the NTDS folder one of two things would happen - it wouldn't
work (or help) or would just boot and replicate (I think the former is more
likely, but you never know...I may just have to test this (someday)).
If you restored the System State to another DC and kept the original online
you'd have some nasty, and likely difficult to diagnose, issues as you'd
have two physical boxes with the same GUID. I did something this in a VM
environment, and I basically lost one of the computers ;-)
I had to format, metadata cleanup, and start again ;-)
--
Paul Williams
Microsoft MVP - Windows Server - Directory Services
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