RE: [ActiveDir] Protecting Active Directory

[Roger Seielstad]

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I believe that includes AD integrated DNS - and all my zones are either AD integrated or secondaries off a Unix system.   Then again - it doesn't matter. The only reason I'd go back to the backup is an authoritative restore of a deleted object. A crashed box is just cleaned from the remaining AD and rebuilt from scratch.   As I said - the most important backup of AD are other servers....   Roger -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Rimmerman, Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 4:12 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Protecting Active Directory What if your DCs are DNS servers, doing a system state backup and restore doesn't restore the DNS functionality and zones, etc.  How do you handle this? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Seielstad Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 3:05 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Protecting Active Directory The best way is to have more than one domain controller.   Once you've got that redundancy, I run a system state backup on 2-3 geographically dispersed DC's using NTBackup (one of which holds the FSMO roles for the domain) and then rip that file to tape as part of the regular backup rotation.   And read, then reread, then live by this info: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/technologies/activedirectory/support/adrecov.mspx -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Philadelphia, Lynden - Revios Toronto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 3:49 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [ActiveDir] Protecting Active Directory Importance: High What is the best way to backup your domain controller so you can restore it in a disaster situation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This e-mail is confidential, may contain proprietary information of the Cooper Cameron Corporation and its operating Divisions and may be confidential or privileged. This e-mail should be read, copied, disseminated and/or used only by the addressee. If you have received this message in error please delete it, together with any attachments, from your system. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~