Re: Active Directory - Disaster Recovery

Hello Jorge,

Thanks for your help, but i still have a problem.

The thing is that i don't have the system disk to perform a restore.
The only thing i have is a system state backup.

Is it possible to perform a clean install and name the server as it was
before and do a DCPROMO?
Can this cause me any problems?

Thanks in advanced.

Best regards,
José Folha.





"Jorge de Almeida Pinto [MVP - DS]" wrote:

if you still have another DC up and running you are OK...

for the server that died:
re-install windows
restore AT LEAST the system disk and the system state (make sure the SYSVOL
is restored non-authoritatively)

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"Jose Folha" <JoseFolha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello, i have 2 windows 2003 server, with Active Directory.

One of them had a faillure, and i will need to install everything again.
I have the system state backup for this failed system.

How can i restore the settings i had before?
It´s just to perform a new installation, join the domain as a member
server
and then perform an AD restore?

Thanks.

Best regards,
José Folha.




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