On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Ken Schaefer<[email protected]> wrote: > I'm going to have to agree with Brian on this. Making a copy of someone's > DIT isn't the same as a proper backup. I don't think Brian's questioning > your professionalism here - but if I was a customer I'd be quite nervous > about this to.
You guys have been working for "real" companies too long. For SOHOs, if you say "I'm making a virtual machine of an Active Directory Domain Controller on my laptop; that includes the DIT files. I'll keep it for a few days in case we have trouble" you're going to get nothing but blank stares. When you then rephrase it as "I'm keeping a copy of important server stuff on my laptop in case we have trouble", you'll get thanked. Remember, a lot of these sorts of places *have no backups at all*. I know that seems incomprehensible to people on this list, but for a lot of really small shops (< 5 people), their disaster recovery plan is chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
