Re: Active Directory Backup on Windows Server 2000

SID's are exactly what I was afraid of. Thank you for confirming my fears.

We do have communication with the hotsite so adding those servers to a new
site within our domain would have to be the way to go.

Thank you.
--
Paul Martin
MCSA Windows 2000
MCDST Windows XP


"Gary L. Olivieri" wrote:

> On 8/25/05 3:41 PM, in article
> 9F43354C-D914-4048-9229-5A2779E50D13@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Paul Martin"
> <pmartinatmbpiadotcom> wrote:
>
> > My question concerns our AD within our single domain. We want to be able to
> > replicate our AD structure it to our disaster recovery site. We have three
> > DC's all running Windows 2000 Server. We have a replica of these three DC's
> > at our hot site (same domain structure, different hardware than in our
> > office). If I back up the System State here in our office and restore those
> > same back ups to our hot site DC's, what, if any, issues does any one expect
> > me to encounter or will this replicate our AD to our Disaster Recover site?
> > Is this method a best practice or good idea? Why or why not?
>
>
> I am not totally sure about this, but I am pretty sure that would break
> something. I think that there would be too much stuff to fix to try to do
> it like that... Mainly SID account ID's for computer accounts, DC's etc.
>
> If the primary facility has communication with the secondary facility I
> would just add the dc's to your existing domain, putting them in to a new
> site. In the event that your primary site fails, split the fismo roles
> between the remaining servers. Then you have the choice to use NTDSutil to
> remove the failed servers from AD, or restore them from backup.
>
> One of the companies that I used to work for kept a dedicated server in a
> hosting facility with a copy of exchange, ad, iis, and dns running to act as
> a fail over if the main site went down. We used a VPN connection to sync it
> up, and it worked very well.
>
> GaryO, MCSE
>
>
>
.

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