Hi
I currently have a dual site office which consists of a Small Business server 2003 and a backup DC at site 1 and 2 DC's at site 2.
The Domain controllers are all running Server 2003 R2 standard edition and the SBS is also R2 Standard.
All the DC's are running in a virtual environment (Hyper-V at site1 and Virtual Server 2005 SP1 at site 2)
At the moment, I backup all the DC's and the SBS from within the guests using BESR 2010, and all seems to backup fine. However, I cannot find any guides for restoring one of these servers should a failure occur. I have read the best practices guide, but it doesn't tell you how to perform a restore. Do I need to perform a granular restore or normal restore or lights out restore.
Is it just a case of mounting the recovery CD to the guest and performing a recovery from backup? Will the DC's or SBS be aware that it has been recoverd from a backup and request and update from the other DC's with causing a USN rollback?
My second question is around backing up the host server at each site. BESR is VSS aware for Hyper-v and Virtual Server 2005. If I was to perfom a backup/restore of the host, would recovering the VHD files of the guests put the DC/SBS into a "recovered from backup state" again preventing a USN rollback.
Non of these seems very clear in the documentation I have read so far, so would like to clarify the correct steps should the need to recover one of these servers ever arise. Any links to documents/ step by step idiot proof guides would be a great help.
Regards
Andy