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What do i need to backup in AD?

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by akalinowski

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just finnished a NT4 -> AD 2k3 upgrade.
I have my DC running on a bran spanking new Dell PE 2800 and I installed Exchange on my old DC/File Server (its a dualie P3 700 w/ 2GB of Ram)

My question is, what should I be absolutly sure I back up incase of failure to keep AD and Exchange users and settings, I installed Exchange on the M: drive of my mail server,and i back that up, so i'm definatly backing up the exchange edb's and log files

but i'm worried about settings, Schema, etc. etc.

any input would be great, thank you!

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by lost_one

Is there a way you could replicate AD to another DC? This might be your best bet. I replicate my AD to another DC in another location that way if my main DC crashes, losses connection or has a fire in the main office I have a complete backup in another location. Don't know if this will work for you.

by akalinowski

that just may work... i'll see about getting another cheapo server to have as a dc on one of the remote offices, right now they just log on to the local machine and use TS to run everything.

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