AD Restore

9 Feb 2006 4:06 PM

ABudhwani

We are currently palnning a disaster recovery site. We currently have a
single forest with 3 domains. We have a empty root, a accounts domain, and a
workstation domain. Is it possible to restore just the accounts domain in
the event of a disaster without retoring the root domain to allow users to
authenticate and no other dc were available?

Thanks
Arun

9 Feb 2006 4:45 PM

Joe

Arun

You will need to restore your root Domain, before you can restore the
accounts Domain - presuming it is a child. When you restore the root you
will need to ensure that all FSMO role holder Domain Controllers are restore
or consolidated onto DCs you chose to restore.

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"ABudhwani" wrote:

> We are currently palnning a disaster recovery site. We currently have a
> single forest with 3 domains. We have a empty root, a accounts domain, and a
> workstation domain. Is it possible to restore just the accounts domain in
> the event of a disaster without retoring the root domain to allow users to
> authenticate and no other dc were available?
>
> Thanks
> Arun

10 Feb 2006 5:18 AM

Cary Shultz

Arun,

No, not really possible. In this environment if you loose your root domain
then you have lost everything.

And, I am very curious why you have this setup? Not challenging you, just
curious why you have a user account object domain and a computer account
object domain (presumably as children domains.....the other possibility is
that you have three domain trees)

--
Cary W. Shultz
Roanoke, VA 24012

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"ABudhwani" <ABudhw***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> We are currently palnning a disaster recovery site. We currently have a
> single forest with 3 domains. We have a empty root, a accounts domain, and
> a
> workstation domain. Is it possible to restore just the accounts domain in
> the event of a disaster without retoring the root domain to allow users to
> authenticate and no other dc were available?
>
> Thanks
> Arun

12 Feb 2006 6:31 PM

abudhwani

Yeah, we did a upgrade in place from NT and thought that would be the easiest
way. Good point, we are actually in the process of colapsing our w.s domain.

Thanks
Arun

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"Cary Shultz" wrote:

> Arun,
>
> No, not really possible. In this environment if you loose your root domain
> then you have lost everything.
>
> And, I am very curious why you have this setup? Not challenging you, just
> curious why you have a user account object domain and a computer account
> object domain (presumably as children domains.....the other possibility is
> that you have three domain trees)
>
> --
> Cary W. Shultz
> Roanoke, VA 24012
>
> "ABudhwani" <ABudhw***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4A9BECDF-A2A1-497F-BD22-31945C51C812@microsoft.com...
> > We are currently palnning a disaster recovery site. We currently have a
> > single forest with 3 domains. We have a empty root, a accounts domain, and
> > a
> > workstation domain. Is it possible to restore just the accounts domain in
> > the event of a disaster without retoring the root domain to allow users to
> > authenticate and no other dc were available?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Arun
>
>
>