Re: Windows 2000 System state
- From: "Pegasus" <I.can@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 00:44:56 +1100
See below.
"buddd" <budman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I am fortunate in the fact that I do not have a system fauilure.
That's not fortunate - that's good planning (which is part of
a server administrator's training).
> I am trying to go through the motions of a system failure and I would to
> reproduce the production environment in a separate test environment,
> using different hardware.
Excellent idea!
> My production network is windows 2000 Active directory, with one Domain
> Controller only. On this domain controller, Exchange 2000 is installed.
>
> I want to have in my test environment a member server with Exchange
> 2000 installed on it and a domain controller with Windows 2000 server
> on a separate machine (although these 2 machines would work together
> in the test network).
A test environment must be completely separate from
a production environment, with no connection of any
kind between the two.
> If I back up the system state from the production DC:
>
> 1. Can I restore it to my test box which will be my test DC?
Yes, as long as the two machines are identical in every respect.
> 2. Do I have to use the same machine name?
That's irrelevant, since the two networks are never connected.
> 3. How does this affect recreation of Exchange? Can I use Echange on a
> different box or it must be on the same machine?
The test server is a clone of the production server.
> 4. Can I name the machine for Exchange a different name?
See your point 2. above.
> 5. Would it be better (in my test environment) to keep the DC and
> Exchange together, add a second DC and do a DCPromo on the first DC?
If the purpose of the exercise is to test a disaster situation
then you must keep the two environments the same.
> 6. How does the fact that there will be the same machine name but a
> different SID play into this?
See your point 2. above.
> Any information would be appreciated.
>
> I tried contacting Microsoft technical support, and I paid for service,
> but I was unable to get straight answers to these questions from them,.
> Quite disappointing as they are usually quite helpful.
Perhaps you did not make it clear whether you wanted a
test environment (to test your ability to recover from a
disaster), or a hot standby setup (to switch rapidly from
one to the other in case of a disaster).
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Mark
> budman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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