Guest a3matrix@gmail.com Posted August 7, 2007 Posted August 7, 2007 Greetings to the group: I am looking at doing an AD restore from tape from last December not for the purposes of rolling back the current environment, but because we need data of some type that is no longer available. Is it possible to perform an authoritative restore of the system state to a DC then unplug that DC from the network so it can't replicate and wind up with a DC with AD on it as it was last December? Rather than squeeze the trigger and wind up finding out the (possibly) really bad way, I thought I would read up and also ask others. So far, the reading has not given me a warm fuzzy. TIA Drew
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted August 7, 2007 Posted August 7, 2007 Re: AD Restore <a3matrix@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1186497418.597737.29350@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com... > Greetings to the group: > I am looking at doing an AD restore from tape from last December not > for the purposes of rolling back the current environment, but because > we need data of some type that is no longer available. > Is it possible to perform an authoritative restore of the system state > to a DC then unplug that DC from the network so it can't replicate and > wind up with a DC with AD on it as it was last December? > > Rather than squeeze the trigger and wind up finding out the (possibly) > really bad way, I thought I would read up and also ask others. > So far, the reading has not given me a warm fuzzy. > > TIA > Drew > You should restore your data only, not your system state. If you restore it to a different location then this will have no effect on your system state or on your current data.
Guest a3matrix@gmail.com Posted August 7, 2007 Posted August 7, 2007 Re: AD Restore > You should restore your data only, not your system state. > If you restore it to a different location then this will have no > effect on your system state or on your current data. Apparently no one is sure what the exact data is. I am being kept completely in the dark other than the order to "restore AD from last December" I get the feeling "they" think that it is right up there with making hot broth using a bullion cube. Either way, the restore is running. I am watching it and once it is done I will yank the network cable and let the chips fall. Thanks for your help. Drew
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted August 7, 2007 Posted August 7, 2007 Re: AD Restore <a3matrix@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1186499120.197576.179980@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com... > >> You should restore your data only, not your system state. >> If you restore it to a different location then this will have no >> effect on your system state or on your current data. > > Apparently no one is sure what the exact data is. I am being kept > completely in the dark other than the order to "restore AD from last > December" > I get the feeling "they" think that it is right up there with making > hot broth using a bullion cube. > Either way, the restore is running. I am watching it and once it is > done I will yank the network cable and let the chips fall. > Thanks for your help. > Drew > Regardless of where the data is located, System Restore won't restore it. BTW, it is good practice to store all server data on a drive other than the system drive.
Guest a3matrix@gmail.com Posted August 7, 2007 Posted August 7, 2007 Re: AD Restore > Regardless of where the data is located, System Restore won't > restore it. BTW, it is good practice to store all server data on a > drive other than the system drive. I should clarify. The data they are concerned about is contained within AD user accounts. Not data in the sense of a file server. I was able to restore the AD files to the box, but when I went into Directory Services Restore Mode and ran ntdsutil and tried to restore the database it fails due to Tombstone life. Not a big surprise. So the question now is how to defeat teh Tombstone. Drew
Guest johnboy007 Posted August 7, 2007 Posted August 7, 2007 Re: AD Restore Only way I can think of IF IT IS A COMPLETE restore is change the dat and time of the server in the bios just after the backup date -- johnboy007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ johnboy007's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=25164 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=796867 http://forums.techarena.in
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