Whoa, yep perhaps I didn't ramble enough!
Simply, whoops I've lost something out of the directory. I need to get that stuff back.
Where can i get the stuff back from:
- tape
- another
DC
- perhaps deleted object restoration by some other 3rd party or another custom written process, maybe, depends what's been lost (if known) or how much money the boss let me spend on buying products.
Now depending on the stuff that's been lost you vary the approach, or at least it seems common sense to me not to go around doing funky things if someone's deleted one user, unless it's the bloke who runs the company!
Then depending on what's happened you've got the next stress of where can I
get the stuff back on to?
Now when I chucked in that comment I wasn't advocating that as the universal solution for all DR problems. Blimey my job would be easy if that was the case. But if you're trying to answer the problem of 'where do I get the stuff back from?' then it's probably worth considering even if it's chucked straight out.
And yes it does have it's bad points, but on the face it's the same bad points as going back to a tape. (Unless there is a difference that I'm missing?).
Every solution has it's bad points, just thought it might be worth kicking around with for some scenarios. When I was looking at the timeline in the fast recovery paper it gave me an idea, so I drew out a timeline based on our organisation and then I could point at the line and stress in some situations. Now using disk snapshots meant that all of a sudden you could get some more points on that timeline, maybe some richer restore capability. As the white paper suggests, it gets you away from some limitations of tape.
So all that I've done is draw up a timeline, think of the scenarios and plan what to do.
And whilst I was at it give disk snapshotting some air time.
As I stated earlier, we need to differentiate between object restores (via lag sites) and true DR (which the MS paper deals with). Restoring a user differs to the restoration of a DC, which differs again to the restoration of a domain and/or forest.
Objects can be restored using 3rd party tools (which back up the database and all attributes regularly) and/or via lag sites.
True DR needs (IMO) a separate physical location, separate physical machines along with DR processes and technologies.
Requirements need to be gathered so that the optimal solution can be found.
What are you trying to achieve?
neil
PS I tried to curb my habit of waffling :)
PS I tried to curb my habit of waffling :)
