Another thing about many small shops (I consult to SMBs) is that there often isn't any "sensitive" data in AD. It's a list of user and computer accounts, with little if any personal info put in. A 10 person shop isn't going to bother filling in all the attributes in AD. Sometimes you don't even get last names. :-)
I also work for large financials and yes, it would be significantly different in such a case. I think it's important to put in perspective what type of data one might be dealing with in this type of situation. *********************** Charlie Kaiser [email protected] Kingman, AZ *********************** > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:21 PM > 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/> ~
