Ken brought up a good point. We did the restore on exactly the same hardware, and maintained the same drive configuration. Otherwise, you'll have real problems.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Cornetet > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 10:31 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Bare metal restore on other hardware? > > > Yes, mostly... > > The first requirement is that the source and target machine > use the same HAL. Also, your system and boot drives on the > source and destination must have the same drive letters. If > the source and destination have a different partitioning > scheme, you will need to work on your boot.ini after the > restore but BEFORE you reboot. > > Pre SP4 you will run into some problems with networking (See > Q810161). SP4 was supposed to fix this, but I've not tested. > > See Q249694 for general steps. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Orin Rehorst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 11:15 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ActiveDir] Bare metal restore on other hardware? > > > I'm charged with planning for disaster recovery. The goal is > to restore active directory to new hardware at a hot site. > > Can you do a bare metal active directory restore on other hardware? > > TIA > > Regards, > Orin > Orin Rehorst > Port of Houston Authority > (Largest U.S. port in foreign tonnage) > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Phone: (713)670-2443 > Fax: (713)670-2457 > TOPAS web site: <www.homestead.com/topas/topas.html> > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%> 40mail.activedir.org/ > > > List info : > http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%> 40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
