Re: Testing a Disaster Recovery Procedure

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Pull an extra client machine out of the production environment, plug it into the recovery environment and see if you can logon and access resources on the domain. See if Group Policy applies correctly. Are there Line of Business apps that have been backed up and restored as well? Check to see if they work.

Mike Shepperd
Sunfire Solutions LLC
Seattle, WA


"Dr. Furrfu" <dr.furrfu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23wxJJDbDHHA.3476@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have tested our AD recovery procedures by recovering
from backups to a test network & test servers. What tests
would you do to confirm that the restore has succeeded?

I've used dcdiag, netdiag, and event log viewer. Everything
seems OK. Are there other tests I could do to verify the
recovery?

Dr.Furrfu

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