Recover Failed DC

[2Tall]

Has anyone been unfortuante enough to have to recover a failed DC from tape?

If yes can you advise the steps you took.

I am testing backup / restore.

My scenario:

I have a single site single domain. 2 DC's 1 Windows 2003 Standard SP2 + 1 Member Server running exchange on a 2003 platform.

The DC holding the FSMO roles dies. I want to recover it. I have a full backup of the failed server (System State / Drice C: etc...)

New hardware arrives. I configure the arrays as before then reinstall the OS. Re-Install Symantec Backup Exec Software

What steps should I now follow?

Should I:

Service Pack the server (i.e. from SP1 to SP2)

Promote to DC via dcpromo install DNS

Re-Install DHCP

or will restoring from tape do all of the above for me?

Regards,

Phil.

Edited October 1, 2007 by 2Tall