Disaster Recovery

[2Tall]

Hi. Has anyone recovered a failed DC from tape media? I would like to test the process in a test lab. have 2 scenarios.

Configuration:

Windows 2003 Server Standard

Single Site / Single Domain

Single DC holding all FSMO Roles

Network also has Exchange on a member server.

Scenario 1:

The DC fails, catastrophic hardware failure (RAID lost). New hardware arrives.

Steps to recover from tape?

1) Configure partitioning as before.

2) Reinstall OS

3) Reinstall backup software (i.e. Symantec backup exec)

3) Boot to Directory Recovery Restore Mode - Recover from tape: Drive C + System State?

Scenario 2:

Same as above but there are 2 DC's in the domain.

Tips and advice appreciated.

Phil.

[cluberti]

The Microsoft way

The Veritas/Symantec BackupExec way

I've had luck with the first link, and done it a few times with success (once in production). I've never tried restoring via BackupExec, so I can't speak to that.