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How do I recover Active Directory to a different hard drive?
Our server running Windows 2003 server with Raid (3 drives) crashed yesterday. The first drive started with a degraded status and windows server refused to boot up. Soon thereafter, all three drives failed. We used Raid reconstuctor to analyze and save a virtual image of the array. We are now using Getdataback to recover the data from the virtual image. Process is ongoing and we hope for positive recovery. Now, if we can recover the data. What are our next steps? We are planning to use same hardware and just replace all three drives. Do we just reinstall windows server 2003 onto the new drive, create raid 5, recover the system state backup and use it to restore Active Directory? Is there a step by step process for this? Would really appreciate the procedures for this.
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So I should just create an Active Directory from scratch with a new pc? What can I salvage from the old raid array? Should i just stop the recovery process then?
since you dont have any domain controller (adc) on your network its difficult to SEIZE the fsmo roles;
recovery process will give you output as data; not an online server; how many user accounts were there? and what type of backup procedure you were following all these days?
recovery process will give you output as data; not an online server; how many user accounts were there? and what type of backup procedure you were following all these days?
i dont have much idea on getdataback; you can wait for the recovery process and also post your updates please.
http://www.runtime.org/raid-reconstructor-faq.htm#vm
according to them you can bring back the server online
according to them you can bring back the server online
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There is a software called Umove that can recover and move active directory even from a dead drive. Does anyone have any additional info on this?
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Unfortunately our backup was not recent. I was able to use Raid Reconstructor to copy all data to a physical drive (a process that took 22 hours). Mount it on the new raid5 array. Used Umove to scan and restore AD to the new drives. I am glad to report that our AD was restored completely. I am posting this in case anyone is in the same boat as I was. Thank you for all your help.
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Appreciated all the help.
please also read the below link which is explaining
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/22685330/Transfer-of-Active-Directory-to-new-Hardware.html