Re: Disaster Recovery Plan for domain with 1 DC

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If my domain controller should go belly up, are there any procedures for recovering the Active Directory domain database to a server with different hardware? (Maybe I can't acquire the same make/model). According to what I've read, the Active Directory database is part of the System State, and according to KB article 249694, restoring a system state backup to a computer with different hardware is not supported.

Read this KB:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=263532

I could maintain a backup domain controller, but I really want to avoid that expense and effort, if possible.


I think that Your basic DR plan should at this moment be to get second machine acting as DC in this network.

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Tomasz Onyszko
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