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Posted by SuperGumby [SBS MVP] on August 21, 2007, 8:22 am
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Jean Paul,
you ripped the heart out of AD and had to remove and reinvite every
workstation to the AD. For a period of time the state of your DC's and
communication between them was indeterminate and you were not particularly
forthcoming with error status about them (you told us a lot about what you
had done, but not much about what was happening, ie. details, error
messages).
I'm glad to hear it's all sorted.
I probably would have gone to the (too long offline) mirror and restored
a recent 'system state', while in a disconnected state, possibly have had
issues but _probably_ not as many as you experienced. However, I can
theorise about the process till hades turns cold, fact is, you have a
functioning system. I'm sorry I was of no benefit in the process but I still
suggest you need to look at your DR procedure, or maybe the approach to DR,
make it easier should it happen again.
> it did' it
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> After 35 years of experience in Micro computing and Software I know one
> thing, say never never.
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> The whole thing is nothing more than shuffling with bits and bytes and
> every bit in every machine is accessible. Never forget that those machines
> are made to work for us and not visa versa, and no matter what it is,
> windows, unix, cp/m or whatever, it is always man-made, no magic, and if
> you really want it to do something it will do it.
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> What my disaster recovery method concerns, It worked several times before
> without any problem on this and other machines. I'm still convinced that a
> raid mirror is the best and the quickest way to be in business again. The
> only problem I had now was that for an unknown reason the mirroring
> stopped in last April and I never got an error of it. So instead off
> reinstalling the whole thing I have taken the mirror disk and putted my
> daily backup on it, and in less than two hours 85% of the network was back
> up, the only problem was this one server 'with the BDC role' who was not
> playing the game and my first question was just if someone had a tool to
> force the server to a stand-alone role, but apparently no one had such a
> thing.
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> I did not ask for a discussion how good or bad SBS is nor if PDC and BDC
> are the correct terms of what everybody know what they are. My problem was
> a server problem with influence on the security, on network and on SBS so
> I thought to find in those groups what I was looking for. It is the first
> time, and I use BBS's long before internet exists, that I've got such
> reactions..
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> No matter, for who is ever interested in how I fixed my problem I will put
> it one of the days to come on my website www.on7ami.be
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> Greets to all,
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> From a growing old IT'er
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> Jean Paul
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>> it won't.
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>>> Hello all,
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>>> I was able to remove on the BDC the name of the PDC using ntdsutil,
>>> whereafter it was posible to take the BDC out of the domain using
>>> DCPromo saying that this was the last domain controller and then he did
>>> it. Overnoon I will restart the servers and hopefully it will all work
>>> as before.
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>>> To bee continued :-) ...
>>>
>>> Jean Paul
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