I would guess that you'll still have to remove the previuosly existing DC's regardless but it's hard to tell what steps you're planning exactly.
al -----Original Message----- From: Kern, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 9:51 AM To: ActiveDir (E-mail) Subject: [ActiveDir] AD disaster recovery We're doing a DR test run of AD. We go to another location and try to restore our network from tape backup(Veritas 8.6). Each time we've run into serious issues when restoring AD to different hardware(this is all our DR site provides) and have never been able to get up and running. So this time, I want to put AD on a laptop, give it a few days to replicate with our network, then take the laptop with me to the DR site, force a transfer of all the FSMO roles, and restore that way. Also, for the other DC's, I just want to set up new domain controllers with the same names and not restore the system state, i,e; AD. Just app specfic stuff and home directories. Does anyone see a problem with this? Will I run into issues with GUID's not matching or USN's? We are also planning on restoring an Exchange 2k server. Any help or advice, war stories, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks 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/
