Since sysvol is a share, does it get shadow copies when you enable it on a drive? Never had a reason to check...
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 5:27 AM, Michael Leone <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 1:24 AM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I can't say for sure what caused it, but somewhere during this process > >> about 10 out of the 70+/- GPOs got fubared, and I had to recover them > >> - something I've never had to do before. Thank all the gods (and > >> decent planning!) that I had snapshot backups of the DC holding all of > >> the FSMO roles, and could mount the VMDK and pull out the sysvol > >> directory and copy them back from the Friday night backup. > > > > Really. I have a scheduled task that backs up all GPOs to a central > > share on the last day of the month. I always assumed that if I needed > > to, I could import a GPO from there, if I needed to restore some > > settings.That seems easier than having to mount a copy of the sysvol > > and copy them out of that. > > Yes, there was a lesson in there for me, and I've learned it. > > Kurt > > >
