Todd Bedell
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Restoring 2008 R2 Domain Controllers from Raw Backup Data
We have two 2008 R2 domain controllers that are broken and out of sync. We are looking to restore these domain controllers from a backup using Veeam. We have been made aware that we were supposed to have application aware processing enabled for the backup on these servers, we did not have it enabled at the time the backup was taken. This means that we are restoring from raw data, essentially if we were reverting to a snapshot of these servers. Can we restore these servers to full functionality?
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These server serve about 300-400 devices. The issue that I am running into with the servers is that there are five fsmo roles, our parent domain controllers own schema master and domain naming master. This leaves us with three fsmo roles, both servers think they own two of those three roles. The roles wont transfer between the servers properly. What would be the procedure to demote one of these servers? It looks like there might not be replication to the parent so we may need to force demote one of the servers.
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Thanks for the help.
I would not use backup data.
If you have two servers, could be an easy fix.
Uninstall/remove the AD role off one of your servers.....
get AD working on this server, e.g. no errors in any of the event logs.... and then after a week, add a new server.
Apply all new updates to old AD server.
(from scratch, new build, add AD role, after adding all updates), and make sure name of new server is different to old/.