System State Data backup and restoration, only to original location???

[PeeluckyDuckee]

Say I have a domain setup, in one domain with mutiple DCs and I backup its system state data on one DC. Can I do the restoration to any DC or does it have to be back to the original DC where I did the backup?

BTW, each DC has their own system state data or is there one system state data for the entire domain?

Thx.
Plucky

 

[huggis]

The system state backup contains "domain info" as well as computer specific data like drivers for your hardware etc. Futhermore: the operations master roles are for sure not the same on all DC´s and therefore another good reason to not use the same backup. So i don´t think there is a such thing as an "entire domain system state" when running multiple DC´s.

But there shouldn´t be needed any system state backup for each and all DC´s since they replicate to each other. This gives you a redundancy if one DC fail totally. Just build up your server again, make it an additional DC in the domain an let the other DC´s replicate back and you are back in buisiness!

 

[PeeluckyDuckee]

Oh so I see, the purpose of the system state data backup then is to restore a DC that went down, once it gets new AD information replicated to it it will be up to date.

BTW, one more thing, do I have to do a restoration locally on the same DC where the backup took place or can I do it over a network? I'm assuming not?....

Thx.
Plucky