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Major Disaster averted ! ! ! !!

Post by sophi » Wed, 24 Jul 2002 05:19:55



I hv. just built a win2K DC and migrated all NT domain
users to 2K domain. All of a sudden my win2K DC cudn't
boot as it said boot.ini was missing.Out of great
difficulty i managed to restore the boot.ini ( to add tot
he problem my server was raid 5 :)_. Now, we r buying the
backup media only next week. So till then if i am to back
up my AD and also Exchange running on the server how do i
do that .... I wud appreciate if someone can give me a
insight as i don't want to lose my only DC... MY server
for the second DC is on itz way from manufacturer... hence
this issue...

Thankz

 
 
 
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Major Disaster averted ! ! ! !!

Post by Nino Bilic [MS » Wed, 24 Jul 2002 11:45:31


I would suggest taking just a PC, ANY PC (it could really be even a laptop
or something) and making it a DC in your domain, as a second DC. You don't
have to do anything on it, just join it to the domain and DCPROMO it up.

After you get your real server, just DCPROMO this one back down after you
have the new server up and running. That way, you will have a fail-back DC.

You could also use NTBackup to backup your System State information on a DC
to a file and then copy this file off to another computer - that will
essentially give you a backup of your domain.

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Quote:> I hv. just built a win2K DC and migrated all NT domain
> users to 2K domain. All of a sudden my win2K DC cudn't
> boot as it said boot.ini was missing.Out of great
> difficulty i managed to restore the boot.ini ( to add tot
> he problem my server was raid 5 :)_. Now, we r buying the
> backup media only next week. So till then if i am to back
> up my AD and also Exchange running on the server how do i
> do that .... I wud appreciate if someone can give me a
> insight as i don't want to lose my only DC... MY server
> for the second DC is on itz way from manufacturer... hence
> this issue...

> Thankz


 
 
 
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Major Disaster averted ! ! ! !!

Post by Itjed » Wed, 24 Jul 2002 19:23:28


Hi there ,

Can I restore System State Information of a DC to a new DC ? Bc next month I
will receive new servers n all the hardware config is different which will
push me to reinstall 2k servers. I suppose SID's will be problem n dunno yet
what to do. Longest manual way it to backup everybodies mailbox as pst file
n reinstall all, recreate users ...
If possible can someone help how to restore AD to a new server. Thxs.



> I would suggest taking just a PC, ANY PC (it could really be even a laptop
> or something) and making it a DC in your domain, as a second DC. You don't
> have to do anything on it, just join it to the domain and DCPROMO it up.

> After you get your real server, just DCPROMO this one back down after you
> have the new server up and running. That way, you will have a fail-back
DC.

> You could also use NTBackup to backup your System State information on a
DC
> to a file and then copy this file off to another computer - that will
> essentially give you a backup of your domain.

> --
> Nino Bilic
> Exchange Support

> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.

> Please do NOT reply to this e-mail address. It is used for newsgroup
> purposes only.


> > I hv. just built a win2K DC and migrated all NT domain
> > users to 2K domain. All of a sudden my win2K DC cudn't
> > boot as it said boot.ini was missing.Out of great
> > difficulty i managed to restore the boot.ini ( to add tot
> > he problem my server was raid 5 :)_. Now, we r buying the
> > backup media only next week. So till then if i am to back
> > up my AD and also Exchange running on the server how do i
> > do that .... I wud appreciate if someone can give me a
> > insight as i don't want to lose my only DC... MY server
> > for the second DC is on itz way from manufacturer... hence
> > this issue...

> > Thankz

 
 
 
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Not being a regular on this NG, I presume that this is already a well
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Can we change Exchange's set-up to make it behave like every other mail
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If not, and if the problem doesn't lie elsewhere, why have Microsoft
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Please let me know if you have experienced this problem too.

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