Yes, and that's our same situation (we have domain controllers around the world), but we decided that we needed to test the truly worst-case scenario, and that means restoring our HP/Compaq DCs to something other than HP/Compaq.
We did manage to restore our DCs at our hotsite vendor's location. Source machine Compaq DL380G2 recovered to a (blech) Dell. I was really surprised that it worked. -----Original Message----- From: Orin Rehorst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 11:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Bare metal restore on other hardware? Our hot site contract includes use of equipment only for test and actual disasters...no permanent usage. I wanted to put an additional domain controller at our remote operational facility that we will be supporting should the data center here go down. Doesn't that sound like the way to go? 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> -----Original Message----- From: marcus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 10:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Bare metal restore on other hardware? Is having a domain controller at that site out of the question? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Flesher Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 11:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Bare metal restore on other hardware? We managed to do a restore of AD to other Hardware. However, what we did is re-install the OS, put the backup client on there, and do a restore. Tivoli's TSM product worked pretty well in this regard. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Orin Rehorst > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 10:15 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/ 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/
