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Best way to restore a server

In the event that my server goes down and is not recoverable, if I have Veritas Backup Exec installed on the server and enough media space each evening to backup up, how should I backup and is it possible to restore everything to another system so that users on the netowrk don;t require to change any settings/file locations etc.?
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Ah yes, Jay, thanks you for that. I have a question leading on: So I set up a SDC along with my PDC, as you suggest I run a full backup everynight (do I just backup all files on each drive or should I also check the Shadow copy Components etc.) there are some files that do not backup (..\systems32\dhcp\tmp.edb etc.), I then take down the PDC, I then promote the other server?, I then put in a new server box, install windows on this new server set it to a SDC, I then install veritas backup exec on this new server, i then catalogue the tape, i then restore all files from all drives onto theis server? I then demote the PDC again and promote the new server to PDC.
However, is there a way of having a system that will work as follows:
the pdc goes down, a new standby server is running in the background that kicks in seamlessly and becomes the pdc, it has all the information that the original pdc had and users only lose connections for a few minutes during the changeover?
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