Re: Backups, ASR and Disastor Planning

- Sorry, additional question...

Whats the proper way to rejoin a user to the domain after running through
restoring the server. Obviously I dont want to run the /connectcomputer
wizard as the user and computer accounts already exist. So what do I need to
do or run on the clients/server in order to rejoin them to the SBS box?

Cheers.
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Chris White
United Kingdom


"Chris White" wrote:

Haha true true.

Unfortunatly that person would probably be my father. He's a director here
but sometimes shares this wonderful IT burden with me (8 Servers and 40
users).

Anyway, I want to write a plain and simple disaster recovery plan and stick
to it. I want people to know what to do if this should ever happen or god
forbid somethin happens to me.

So i am in the process of taking care of our company in this respect. I work
here out of passion more than money, I want to see the company grow and be
successful. We've recently had a boom which was un-expected, taking us from
300GB of data up to about 1TB with work increasing nicely. This is all very
good but obviously I need to take care of risks my end in terms of recovery.

I will have Shadow Copies working nicely when our backup server has more
SATA TB disks installed. At the moment its mostly DFS Replica's with Failover
enabled covering the file stuff.

Anyway, thanks for the help. I will use the document to shape the recovery
document.
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Chris White
United Kingdom


"Teneo" wrote:

Are you saying someone at the office can restore when you are away.... Cool
you have another IT person...lol


"Larry Struckmeyer" <lstruckmeyer(at)mis-wizards(dot)com> wrote in message
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Hi Chris:

The official MS document and real world experience don't differ much.
Install the Windows Portion of SBS, stop, add the Service Pack needed to
bring your Windows to previous levels, and restore from your backup.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/d/8/bd8e1a40-d202-429a-8eb7-26300d62bcc9/BKU_BkupRstr.doc

Or, image with one of the commercial / freeware products.

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Larry


"Chris White" <ChrisWhite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all,

I am just completing my disaster recovery routine for the server room in
case i'm not around. Its bad enough being the one and only IT guy in this
company but I need to make a plan for disaster recovery should anything
happen when i'm away.

Now, the following is currently in place...

SBS2003 Full Backup to Local Hard Disk x 3 (3 Days Worth of Full Backups)
Backup File Copied to Seperate Backup Server and Taken Offsite.

However, the one thing that always made me curious was the ASR. How to
properly implement this into the design and, in the event of a total HDD
failure on the SBS Operating System HDD, how to go about getting it all
back
up and running.

Whats the best steps to recovery assuming the following...

1. The SBS HDD has totally died and is down completely.
2. Backups are available on seperate local HDD installed in SBS Server

Cheers and thanks in advance.

--
Chris White
United Kingdom





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