Restoring active directory

[joearmitage]

Hope you can help.
We currently have 2 w2k domain controllers. When we go to a Disaster Recovery site next week we intend only using one domain controller. How can I restore active directory to one server without it trying to replicate.

Regards,
Joe

 

[Dingaan]

Hi , Have you had any feedback on this . We are trying to do the same , but on to dissimilar hardware. Every time we do a restore we have huge problems with "device errors" which is obviously coming from the registry restore .

Rgds
Craig

 

[CHESTNUTTR]

You have to decide if you want the active directory that you restore to be replicated to all the domain servers or if you want the AD on the other domain servers to replcate to the restored server. You do this by doing an "authoritative restore" or a "non-authoritative restore". You can find tons of documentation on this at Google.com by searching for Active Directory. Also check out John Savill's excellent site at

http://www.ntfaq.com

(search doc id 13384). Also TechNet has a white paper called "Active Directory Disaster Recovery".