Guest badamsios Posted August 28, 2007 Posted August 28, 2007 I don't like the idea of my AD server doing anything other than AD. My co-working insists we must put the backup software on and run the backups FROM AD. I'd rather have a dedicated backup server. We are getting a new disk to disk to tape system to speed up disaster recovery so I'm looking for the fastest backup and restore options possible while still protecting my AD as much as possible. What's the best practice for backing up AD? Brian
Guest Mathieu CHATEAU Posted August 28, 2007 Posted August 28, 2007 Re: Install backup software on my AD? Hello, what is your number of users ? DC should be let alone: Memory usage by the Lsass.exe process on domain controllers that are running Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000 Server http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308356/en-us Limit or minimize the number of programs on your domain controller For optimum performance, the Lsass.exe process takes as much RAM as possible on a given server or domain controller. The Lsass.exe process relinquishes that RAM as other processes ask for it. The idea is to optimize performance of the Lsass.exe process while still accounting for other processes that might run on a computer. Because of this and to increase performance, it is a good practice to limit or minimize the number of programs on a domain controller. If there are no memory requests, the Lsass.exe process uses this memory to cache queried data. -- Cordialement, Mathieu CHATEAU http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com "badamsios" <brian@brianandmaryadams.com> wrote in message news:1188313613.764260.75570@z24g2000prh.googlegroups.com... >I don't like the idea of my AD server doing anything other than AD. > My > co-working insists we must put the backup software on and run the > backups FROM AD. > > I'd rather have a dedicated backup server. We are getting a new disk > to disk to tape system to speed up disaster recovery so I'm looking > for the fastest backup and restore options possible while still > protecting my AD as much as possible. > > > What's the best practice for backing up AD? > > > Brian >
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