In my situation in my small network all I have is one server with two hard drives, one which the OS is installed on and another that is partitioned into a 10gb and 105gb from a 115gb. Active Directory stuff and shared files are on the 105 gb partition on the second drive.
In the event that both hard drives just blow up and I have backups using the software you have mentioned can it restore the complete first drive that has the OS with it's boot partition? Then secondly, restore the whole second hard drive with both of it's partitions and all the data so when I boot it up it will have the OS and all Active Directory objects back in place as if nothing happened :-)
Thanks - Jake
On Jan 23, 2004, at 1:28 PM, Douglas M. Long wrote:
Doesnt anyone have backup DCs? I may be way off, but it seems as though a
machine going down shouldnt really affect you that much if you have a backup
DC. In which case, backup isnt even really that important. Although I do
backup, I dont get too worried if a backup fails for a night or two. I
posted this on an earlier post (may have been what this one stemmed from),
but thought I would post it again, as it IS a good cheap solution that works
really well. And if you dont know linux, it doesnt matter (it is just a
linux based floppy), the only commmands you use are ftp commands
If you want some good free imaging software. Try this out
http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ . It is a linux based boot floppy that uploads an
image or your HD to an FTP server. I use it all the time. It works on any OS
you can get the boot disk to work on. Just make sure you do follow the
"Reducing the image size" directions, as it will cut the image size down
DRAMATICALLY.
I dont know if you have seen any of them, but there are now a couple
affordable (around $300) NAS products out there that have a NAT firewall,
FTP server, etc. built-in. This would be a great compliment to using the
linux imaging disk, and would be accessable on the network if your server
totally blows up. Just stick the image disk in, point it to the NAS, which
is running a FTP sever, and let it restore it for you.
Backup Process
1. Image your server with all patches, programs, and service packs on it.
2. Run nightly backup of "data only," with Windows backup utility.
3. FTP the backup to your NAS FTP server with a batch
4. Done
Restore Process
1. Image machine from NAS FTP server backdown to hardware with linux floppy
2. FTP latest "data backup" from NAS FTP server to the server image you just
restored
3. Run "Restore" on the backup file.
4. Done
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rimmerman, Russ Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 4:04 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory
Whew I lucked out. We have 6700 users and it came to 593MB so it'll fit!
Now, is there any tricks I should know about restoring this system state
data? Just boot into DSRestore and run NTBackup and restore it? Easy as
pie?
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Mine would fit fine - it backs up (not compressed) to just under 300MB.
Then again, I've got ~500 user objects, and twice that many computer objects. And the ADC isn't turned on yet...
-------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc.
List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm-----Original Message----- From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 3:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory
I doubt any domain controller's backup would fit on a CDROM. I might fit if you zip or gzip it before burning. Would a USB external drive be an option?
Would this work for you?
1. Install OS on your target recovery test server. Keep it as a workgroup server, don't add to domain. Do this build in your current physical location.
2. Do NTBackup of your DC to a share on the target server.
3. Take target test server offsite and do the restore from the file.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rimmerman, Russ Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 2:33 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory
If you're going to do disaster recovery testing and rebuilding your domain off-site and the off-site location doesn't have a compatible tape drive, what's the best way to get your domain rebuilt? We use BackupExec normally, but in this case I am guessing you could just use NTBackup and could you back it up to a CD? Then do your authoritative restore, so you don't have to worry about tapes?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Cornetet Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 1:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory
For a small site (no more than a few servers) NTBackup is plenty adequate. Schedule NTBackup to run nightly and back up to a workstation's hard disk via a share (assuming you have a workstation with a large enough drive[1]).
If you want to get fancy, you can write a batch file to drive NTBackup, grep through the log file for errors, and email a report. I can give you an example script if you like.
[1] Staples has a 120GB IDE drive for $60 after rebate.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jake Connor Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 2:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Active Directory
I need some real good articles that tell me step by step how to backup active directory and RESTORE with software to another drive or something because I almost had a crash right now and company is too cheap to invest in a reliable backup solution or consulting :-\
Please help!
Thanks
- Jake
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