Ground up restore of 2000 AD controller

[Guest]

I am trying to document disaster recovery policies for rebuilding a 2000 AD domain controller from the ground up. This is the only domain controller in the domain. I built a new server with same OS version and disk partitions to restore to. Now how do I restore the domain controller to this new server? I have tried booting to Directory Service Repair Mode and restoring the system state and Winnt directory filese but then the server just hangs at splash screen at reboot.

Tried many other things but all dead ends. Is there a KB atricle that would outline this process? I can't find anything..... Thanks!

 

[Tomasz Onyszko]

I am trying to document disaster recovery policies for rebuilding a 2000 AD domain controller from the ground up. This is the only domain controller in the domain. I built a new server with same OS version and disk partitions to restore to. Now how do I restore the domain controller to this new server? I have tried booting to Directory Service Repair Mode and restoring the system state and Winnt directory filese but then the server just hangs at splash screen at reboot.

Tried many other things but all dead ends. Is there a KB atricle that would outline this process? I can't find anything..... Thanks!

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;241594&sd=tech
http://www.windowsecurity.com/artic...Directory_Part_3__Backup_and_Restoration.html
http://www.windowsecurity.com/artic...000_Active_Directory_Part_4__Restoration.html

My method is, restoring system files, registry and system state, use
ntdsutil to perform restoration for AD

 

[Jim Singh]

Dan,

first you got to make sure that the box that you are trying to restore sys
state, sysvol backup is infact similar (hardware wise) to the original box.

for example: if the original box DC is DL380g2 proliant server, than make
sure you disaster recovery server etc is similar i.e dl380g2 proliant. This
will save you from a lot of hassel as individual hardware has it own set of
HAL drivers. that is why when you try to restore the backup from you DC1, it
hange becaue that backup sys state, syvol looks for orginal HAL.

there are work arounds if you had a dissimilar hardware, just do a search on
MS site for resotoring on dissimilar hardware.

if it is a similar hardware then installing systate will restore the DC
settings on new box, and sysvol restore will restore any GPOs from the
original DC.

-Jim

I am trying to document disaster recovery policies for rebuilding a 2000

AD domain controller from the ground up. This is the only domain controller
in the domain. I built a new server with same OS version and disk partitions
to restore to. Now how do I restore the domain controller to this new
server? I have tried booting to Directory Service Repair Mode and restoring
the system state and Winnt directory filese but then the server just hangs
at splash screen at reboot.

Tried many other things but all dead ends. Is there a KB atricle that

would outline this process? I can't find anything..... Thanks!

 

[Andrei Ungureanu]

What Service Pack do you have on the new computer? I know that in the past I
have seen this problem and applying the latest service pack resolved the
problem.

Andrei Ungureanu
www.eventid.net

I am trying to document disaster recovery policies for rebuilding a 2000

AD domain controller from the ground up. This is the only domain controller
in the domain. I built a new server with same OS version and disk partitions
to restore to. Now how do I restore the domain controller to this new
server? I have tried booting to Directory Service Repair Mode and restoring
the system state and Winnt directory filese but then the server just hangs
at splash screen at reboot.

Tried many other things but all dead ends. Is there a KB atricle that

would outline this process? I can't find anything..... Thanks!