Restoring a Stand-Alone Server 2003 Domain Controller w\Active Directory

[iamstevechamber]

Hi,

When doing a bare metal restore using BESR, does Active Directory also get restored? If not, what other steps would have to be taken to get our one and only domain controller with Active Directory up and running again?

Thank you,

Steve

[marcogsp]

As long as you image the drive(s) that contain the AD databases and structure, the AD will be available to be restored as well.  Since this is a stand-alone domain controller, simply restoring all the drives would bring the AD back online.

This technote regarding best paractices with domain controllers might also be helpful:

http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/290720.htm

[iamstevechamber]

Perfect! Thank you for the response marcogsp and also for the very useful links!!!