Re: Restoring Active Directory on new Hardware

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I am telling you,because i Did it,yes it is write that i have system state
backup....
and it worked..

"Paul Bergson [MVP-DS]" wrote:

A couple of notes, when you do a restore, even if on the same hardware make
sure that the install o/s is at the same patch level as the recovering o/s.
I seen this time and time again where folks don't do this and it always
seems to fail. I can recover any o/s if I start with the same o/spatch
level and restore to a virtual machine. So if you were to restore to a
virtual guest and then bring up some hardware you could make it the second
dc in your domain and replicate to the physical machine from the virtual
machine. That should work for you.

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Paul Bergson
MVP - Directory Services
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"frank423" <frank423@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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We are a small business, only have one windows 2003 server acting as dns,
dhcp, file server, active directory.

Two week ago, a fire was succesfully contain in the main electric room of
our office. But, if everything had burned, how long would it take to be up
and running again.

That mean : buying a new server, installing windows server 2003 Sp2 ( like
the old one), retrospect 7.5 and trying to restore the backup with active
directory.

So since two weeks, I try to do that.
I can't find a way to restore my backup to a different hardware server. I
always finish with :
problem with hal.dll or bsod .

After restoring, if I try to repair the windows server 2003 installation
with the cd, after the first reboot during the setup I got a messages
telling : the active directory password is wrong... press any key to
reboot



Nevertheless, nothing seem to work.
My two server are windows server 2003 sp2.
I try to restore with restore entire volume, replace correspondig file,
restore missing file only.

Is the a way to do what I need ?

I dont want to have to bring my server at home each night, just to prevent
fire !!

thanks

frank

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