I have a 100 percent Windows 2000 network and I currently have ten servers all using 2000 advanced server. I have 2 domain controllers. One is on my primary subnet which is most important (about 100 users), and I have a second DC on a smaller secondary subnet at a remote location that maitains about 10 clients or so. My Domain controller on my primary subnet currently handles the following tasks – DNS,DHCP,Wins, Active directory (obviously), Terminal Services licensing and all of the group policy i have set up was established on this controller. Now to the question – I am currently backing up system state once a week on my domain controllers but I am assuming that this is not enough. To my knowledge system state will only recover AD,DNS registry settings and wins. ON that note, Does it make sense to just backup the whole C drive and if it craps out replace the drive and restore the whole drive from backup?? To me that seems like you could run into trouble. This is what I think i have to do, but I want some feedback as to if there are more effective methods. Run system state backup which covers AD,DNS, wins (i think) and registry settings. Backup group policy via GP msc. Backup DHCP via DHCP msc. Store these 3 files on a remote computer and run these backups once a week. (maybe not GP settings because i dont make alot of changes) A secondary question is, if i have my other DC online could i just replicate from that? And a third question, would a backep suite like backup-exec make more sense here?
Any thoughts??
Thanks for any insight and feeback on my questions.