In this case it was ok since it was a stand alone DC. Just my home network with exchange and few pc's.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 7:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Another reason why VM's are grrrrrreat! Yeah, not sure I would ever restore a DC to a backup, unless it was the last one, otherwise, I Would myself prefer to just rebuild it Nice recovery though on the chkdsk ________________________________ Ron J Wulff * The Bank of New York Mellon *412-236-0494 * Mobile 412-770-6099 * [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]%20> From: "N Parr" <[email protected]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Date: 09/01/2010 08:31 AM Subject: Another reason why VM's are grrrrrreat! ________________________________ So I shut down a DC VM yesterday and go to turn it back on and get a hosed ntoskrnl.exe upon boot. Great, another learning experience brought to you by Tuesday, the new Monday. Restore the VM Backup from day before and still have the error. So the virtual disk has been fragged for a while. I try booting off install iso and restoring the file and get errors trying to restore the corrupt file, so the disk is really in bad shape. Last ditch effort I attach the virtual disk to another server and run chkdsk on it. Viola, It finds a ton of file and index errors and fixes them. Detach, power on DC and it boots up with no problem. So if I would have done that in the first place it would have taken me an whole five minutes. So the moral of the story is don't assume your backups are good. Even if you can restore them, if you haven't booted them then you can't be sure, what a pain. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> > ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ <http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/> or send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachment, is confidential and is intended solely for the use of the intended recipient. Access, copying or re-use of the e-mail or any attachment, or any information contained therein, by any other person is not authorized. If you are not the intended recipient please return the e-mail to the sender and delete it from your computer. Although we attempt to sweep e-mail and attachments for viruses, we do not guarantee that either are virus-free and accept no liability for any damage sustained as a result of viruses. Please refer to http://disclaimer.bnymellon.com/eu.htm for certain disclosures relating to European legal entities. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
