I spent 4 years as a consultant to the SOHO's and I spent most of my time rebuilding systems that were never backed up and had to explain to them that ALL of their work was lost for good.
I liked the customers that gave the blank stares, I could do my job without hassle. Then there's the customer that *thinks* they know what's going on because they read semi-technical magazines and question every move you make while on-site, ugh. Thanks, Jake Gardner TTC Network Administrator Ext. 246 -----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/> ~ ***Teletronics Technology Corporation*** This e-mail is confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the addressee or authorized by the addressee to receive this e-mail, you may not disclose, copy, distribute, or use this e-mail. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail or by telephone at 267-352-2020 and destroy this message and any copies. Thank you. ******************************************************************* ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
