Yes you can have multiple root servers. And it is a very good idea to do so. For one, you can transfer some of the FSMO roles to the other server. For another, in case of failure, you have another root domain controller live that can take over. You are thinking along the lines of NT4, with the 1 PDC. With 2000, as long as the server is a Domain Controller in the root domain, it will contain all the info. You may even want to set up a desktop class machine as the second domain controller if that is all you have.
Ben Winzenz, MCSE Network/Systems Administrator Peregrine Systems -----Original Message----- From: Anthony L. Sollars [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 4:33 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Emergency HELP Please Along these same lines, how would you protect yourself from this tradegy by way of a second server that can also hold the root server data, can you have 2 root server? I am sure you enterprise level admins don't have one single server at the head of your root domains? Thanks again. I too have only 1 root server right now, but it is a reall server with full HArdware RAID and redundancy at all levels, but I would feel even safer if I had another server keeping copies of the root domain data. -TOny -----Original Message----- From: John Allhiser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 11:42 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Emergency HELP Please You should at least back up your system state data (AD). With 2000 you can back up to another disk or another server using the built-in Winbackup. Then, if it happens again, you're only replacing a HDD instead of a domain. -----Original Message----- From: Morgan, Joshua [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 1:26 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Emergency HELP Please Ok I need a little help with this. I rebuilt the root domain lets call it Root.net After the DNS installed I set it to allow automatic updates I then went in and my child domain information has re-registered completely and all of my stuff has started to work fine (from what I can tell)... Now that I have convinced management of the need for REAL servers and they are on order can I hold off till I get those servers to rebuild anything? Joshua Morgan PH: (864) 250-1350 Ext 133 Fax: (413) 581-4936 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: James Winzenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 10:38 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Emergency HELP Please Sounds like the drive is toast . . . Especially if chkdsk -f can't fix the error. Me thinkee you is gonna be in the office REAL late . . . Gonna have to rebuild your entire domain structure. Again, badger mgmt for real hardware - although you do have to take the blame for the backups, you can at least point to this and say . . . "this wouldn't have happened if we had had a real Server with H/W RAID . . ." - and there's no complete guarantee that a restore would have worked, especially if there was data on the area where the bad blocks were. But I think we can all be assured that you will start doing backups from this point forward . . . :) - p.s. make sure to backup the system state if you just use Ntbackup (at least it's free!). James Winzenz, MCSE, A+ Associate Systems Administrator Peregrine Systems, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Joshua Morgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 10:23 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Emergency HELP Please I can also tell you when it is in the second machine and I go to the System Event Logs I constantly see The Device \Device\HardDisk1\DR1, has a bad block ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
