<stupid question alert>
Okay so unless you are insane SBS.. images of your DCs are ixnay. What
does Sun, Linux, Mac or any other competing Server OS do in their world
to ensure the Kingdom easily and quickly comes back up? <yeah I know
they don't have AD but they have to have some competing glue, right?>
What have they done if anything?
How to detect and recover from a USN rollback in Windows Server 2003:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=875495
That KB is interesting as it clearly indicates that having a DC in a
Virtual Server environment is not supported... yet we SBSers have gotten
word that once Exchange 2003 sp2 supports Vserver all of the parts of
the 'standard' box will be supported in a virtual environment.
Brett Shirley wrote:
If you have any replicas of those servers, when you restore those VMWare
images, you will have corrupted your forest during restore.
-BrettSh [msft]
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On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Carroll Frank USGR wrote:
I am working my way down the VMWare path also for my ultimate DR "ace in
the hole". The environment is a TLD with 4 child domains. I am planning
on running a single VMWare server that has virtual DCs for all 5
domains. I am going to peel off a dedicated site/vlan and put the
physical VMWare server and all of the DC virt servers in that site. None
of the virtual DCs are going to be GCs. The reason for the dedicated
site is so I can keep people from using them for validation in
production.
Once I have them running, I plan to use the VM scripting to gracefully
shut them down once a day and then shoot the image file of the shutdown
DC off to tape, which then goes off-site. After the backup completes I
then restart the virtual servers.
This plays into the different hardware scenario since I can use VMWare
to abstract the hardware.
Of course, this whole process is the backup to the normal system state
backup of all my backbone DCs.
FWIW - Frank
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD Restore Problem
You will still need to abandon the snapshot/image approach. Go to
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ and search for
"usn rollback". You can get the same information by searching
support.microsoft.com, but without the colorful and enlightening
commentary that the list provides.
Hunter
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