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Active Directory: Exporting & Disaster Recovery

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Maybe its because I always use site to site vpn and have live servers and full replication.. so this got me thinking for some clients that can't afford live disaster recovery servers..

I have a client that doesn't have a live disaster recovery site.. they have their files backup up to evault and solution was to restore them to another server. But this doesn't take care of the AD issues.. So we all know, without AD, you can't log into your domain..

I mean you can backup daily AD snapshots using stuff like backup exec (system state) and restore them to the new server. Is there a product that stricly backups AD and allows you to restore them to another server without the huge backup exec engine ?

Something like backup AD to external USB drive or something that you can easily restore to another server and have AD working fast, and not through ad recovery mode..

I never tackle one of these because never had like a small client (10 user). If not Ill do it the old fashion way..
 
virtualize dude. veeam is a cheap way to do site to site replication and backup over (disk/wan).

if you backup both ad servers at the same time during off-hours i doubt you'll ever tombstone. just be careful with time management in a VM. it requires extra thought. the cost of vsphere essentials+veeam for (2/3) 1-socket 6-core boxens is less than backup exec lol. check it out.

vsphere essentials gives you 3 boxes of 2 sockets (max 6 cores each socket) so that's a pretty powerful VM host. also since its doing host-based DEDUPE/Change block detection you do not need a NAS/SAN at all.

the nifty part is it can replicate (Snapshot) the vm's to another server and boot that server in a sandbox to actually test your SRM/DR policy regularly. Something most small businesses can't afford to do. test backups to see how well they work.

if the business can quiesce its activities for a few hours each night it's pretty bulletproof.
 
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