Thank You ! Someone that gets it ! The real world versus how it should be.
You folks working within a 'real' corporate IT structure don't know how good you have it ( I have been there, too ). You wouldn't believe the number of sites with no disaster recovery plan, or even backups. Of those that do have backups, some have NEVER done a test restore. I have seen too many sites fail because they could not restore from tape some otherwise critical data. And I can assure you that if they do not understand the flaw in keeping login credentials on a postit note on their monitor, nor the flaw in not having a password expiration policy, nor the flaw in letting the owner's child play on the internet with the owner's login that has full privledges, they wouldn't be worried about how my method of protecting them violates 'best practices'. Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 1:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain 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/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
