Valid Forest Recovery Scenario using VMs?

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i’ve been working on various dr scenarios our active directory forest.

 

i’ve read forest recovery white paper , covers bare metal restore using windows server backups working on in lab. i’ve organised fsmo roles , features ones required restore consolidated on virtual servers (my logic being these quickest restore)

 

domain_a_dc1 (forest root domain)

 

·         pdc emulator

·         domain naming master

·         rid master

·         infrastructure master

·         schema master

·         dns

·         not gc

 

domain_b_dc1

 

·         pdc emulator

·         rid master

·         infrastructure master

·         dns

·         not gc

 

domain_c_dc1

 

·         pdc emulator

·         rid master

·         infrastructure master

·         dns

·         not gc

 

we backup using 6 hourly windows server backups local volume , networked location start backing our virtual infrastructure @ machine level , wondering if scenario below valid dr.

 

1.     disaster occurs on monday

2.     unplug physical domain controllers network (as per whitepaper)

3.     rebuild virtual infrastructure

4.     restore virtual machine images sunday 3 domains.

5.     boot up.

6.     login default admin account (as no gc)

7.     clean metadata old dcs (delete accounts dcs server 2008 r2)

8.     make 3 dcs global catalogues

9.     promote additional dcs in each domain , make @ least 1 in each gc.

10.  remove gc role servers above (as hold im role) or make dcs global catalogues).

thanks in advance comments.

hello,

restoring snapshots not supported causes usn rollbacks problems.

you have use ad-aware backup.

 

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