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BESR7 and Acitve Directory on differently Hardware

BESR7_and_Activ
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Accredited

‎09-17-2007 01:24 AM

Hi,

we bought BESR7 for one of our customers to change the hardware of an Windows SBS Server. As i would start with the backup process i read in the manual that a restore of an Windows Active Directory Server is not possible, because of different secure id´s.
 
 Please don´t shock me, is there any way to do that or workarounds?
 
Thank you,
rene seedorff
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Bill_Felt
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Employee Accredited Certified

‎09-17-2007 04:37 PM

Hello,
 
I believe we have a document somewhere that talks about this.  :)  Backing up a Windows 2003 Active Directory server and restoring it to new hardware is fully supported. 
 
Bottom line is that we use Microsoft's own recommended method for preparing an AD server for backup by integrating with the VSS service to properly flag the active directlry as a backup copy.  This causes it to request a new invocation ID upon restoration.
 
Backing up a Windows 2000 Active Directory server is also supported as long as the servers system state is properly captured with NTBackup.

Thanks.
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