Hello All!
I have researched this question quite a bit, but have not found a solid
answer as to why or how this would be done.
I am doing a disaster recovery test on VMs, to eliminate the part of
'dissimilar hardware' or to simulate 'Identical hardware' in real life
scenario. But I am running into some trouble while doing this, and hope that
some of you can help me out here.
Here is what I have:
A single DC that holds all FSMO roles.
I am using ntbackup to take only System State backup of the good DC. <all
paths default>
Here is what I do to restore:
Got a freshly installed 2003 standalone server.
Hooked it into a hub to get network connectivity.
Give it the same ip as my good DC
In normal mode, while logged in as local admin, ran ntbackup, and restored
the file created from orginial DC with defaults. <To original location,
create junctions> and restarted.
In normal mode, it gives an error 0xc000018e, and says to restart in DSRM.
Upon rebooting in DSRM, DC asks to activate windows, and after passing that,
when I ran ntdsutil, it does not pass file integrity.
Upon closer inspection, in Windows\NTDS, I have only ntds.dit and one log
file, when originally I am supposed to have more than that just two files.
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Now I can't boot up into the normal mode, and I tried to do a restore second
time while being in DSRM, but that didn't help either.
I am thinking to blow away this copy and reinstall again and do ntbackup
again, but should I do the restore twice before rebooting?
I read in the list archives that while restoring, do restore to original
location once and second time to an alternate location. What is that about?
Also, would doing a back up of System State AND the whole C Drive help?
Thanks a lot in advance!
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