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How? Quickly Rebuild Domain Controller

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by ttee80

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How can I quickly rebuild a domain controller after adding an additional HDD and consolidate the data drives D, E, and F to D? Primarily use is as a domain controller and file server. Backup SW is BackupExec with approx 65G of data. Are there registry keys I can use to simplify the rebuild task? Main applications on server are BackupExec, Server Protect, NT Option Pack 4.0 ( IIS ). Steps planning to use are: full backup, listed shares via DumpACL, snap shots of all FTP virtural directories, break array, add additional HDD, rebuild server with standard configuration with only C & D drives, restore D partition data to D, restore E & F partitions to D, recreate shares according to DumpACL listing, recreate FTP virtural directories. Isthere a better way?

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by ntoz

If your using the same server and the only component that is changing is the hard-drive, why not use ghost. Create an image of your drive, replace the drive and restore the image? You dont mention installing a new controler and since thats what you would need to worry about from a driver perspective, a ghosted image should work just fine. The harddrive would be configured in BIOS or in SCIS bios depending on what your doing today. As long as you were using the same partition information, boot.ini wouldnt even have to be reconfigured.

by ttee80

I won't be adding a new controller, I'll be adding another 18.2 G HDD to make it a total of six HDDs using RAID 5. From there I'll create only C & D data drives, thus consolidating the previous D, E, and F drives. If I export the share registry key, will I be able to restore the same share registry key data once the server has been rebuilt and thus after rebooting have all my shares as before? Ghosting won't do the job. Since it's a highly visable departmental server, I want to get it reight the first time. No time to revisit server for an unstable functioning OS.

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