Testing a Disaster Recovery Procedure

[Dr. Furrfu]

I have tested our AD recovery procedures by recovering
from backups to a test network & test servers. What tests
would you do to confirm that the restore has succeeded?

I've used dcdiag, netdiag, and event log viewer. Everything
seems OK. Are there other tests I could do to verify the
recovery?

Dr.Furrfu

 

[Mike Shepperd]

Pull an extra client machine out of the production environment, plug it into
the recovery environment and see if you can logon and access resources on
the domain. See if Group Policy applies correctly. Are there Line of
Business apps that have been backed up and restored as well? Check to see
if they work.

Mike Shepperd
Sunfire Solutions LLC
Seattle, WA

 

[Jorge de Almeida Pinto [MVP - DS]]

I could just repeat what he said, but it is true. Check the AD and network
services and if all apps work

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