Re: Backup of DC - windows 2003

You ...need...the..whole...thing.
What good is the Windows folder without the rest of the drive's contents?
You don't want to restore a Registry full of Application Settings for
Applications that no longer exist on the machine becuase you didn't install
them along with it (ex. C:\Program Files\*)

Full Backup,...*everything* on the drive,...plus the System State

It needs to be the exact same identical hardware,...or at least the same
model of Drive Controllers,...of the thing will "blue screen" on you when
you try to start it up. If you get really, really, really, really lucky it
might boot from different hardware,...but it is a "crap shoot",...and as
someone already said,...MS does not support restores to "different
hardware".

To protect from a fire keep the two DCs in different buildings (or far far
away from each other if it is a very large building) so you won't lose both
at the same time in the same fire. 90% of your ability to recover from a
disaster comes from *not* loosing both DCs at the same time.

The primary purpose, as far as I am concerned, of the Tape Backups is to
protect against *software disasters* when the hardware is still intact.


--
Phillip Windell

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
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"biren" <biren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

I have read this thread and now I am confused!

WE do have two domain controllers in the same physical location. All the
servers are windows 2003.

Let us say, we had a fire and everything got burnt. Am i able to recreate
the domain based on System State backup alone?

I would reinstall windows 2003 (on a new server, presumably), and then
restore SS based on the backup.

In this case do I need c:\Windows folder to be backed up?

Why do I need the whole of C:\

when its just a pure domain controller?


Thanks for your input.

Hope this clarifies the picture.




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