Restore 1st AD Controller

[Guest]

I am practicing disaster recovery of my AD Domain Controllers. Using
NTBackup, I backup the system state only on my windows 2000 std. SP4 (plus
some critical updates) ADC which is running DHCP, DNS and Wins. On my stand
alone test server, I installed w2k server std and sp4 (no critical updates),
DHCP, DNS, Wins and the AdminPak. Rebooted into DS safe mode. Started the
restore but NT Backup won’t finish. It gets right down to the end and quits.
The server won’t rebooted after that. I followed the instructions in
Windows 2000 Server Disaster Recovery Guidelines White Paper.

The two servers are different but they are both RAID 5.

Anybody got any ideas?

 

[Paul Bergson]

If the two servers have different hardware then the hive at reload time is
not going to have the correct hardware drivers, etc...

Maybe the link below can help you get started:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;263532&Product=win2000

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Paul Bergson MCT, MCSE, MCSA, CNE, CNA, CCA

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

 

[Guest]

That is a good article. But when doing the restore gets down to about 20
seconds and is processing: System StateActive Directory then NT Backup
closes. NT Backup doesn't generate a report.