Backing up Administrative Tools

[tumas]

Hey Guys,

I would like to make a backup of my administrative tools, is there anyway that I could back up all of these Mailnly

Active Directory
DHCP
DNS
WINS

Thanks!

 

[Spirit]

Are you talking you MMC consoles or are you talking backing up the server?

Open your MMC save as put it somewhere sensible repeat as necessary and the backup the new folder.

er start here for server backup;

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sbs/2000/reskit/sbrk0026.mspx?mfr=true

Iain

 

[tumas]

well I would like to make a backup of Active directory DNS DHCP and the rest, incase i will need to reconstruct my server i just restore the backups

 

[pgaliardo]

Sounds like you want a complete backup of the whole server and include the system state.

 

[tumas]

well that is happening, I am backing up data and system state, however system state if im not mistaken backs up only Active Directory and not DHCP DNS WINS etc.

 

[pgaliardo]

I know the DHCP database is located at \\servername\{windir}\system32\dhcp\dhcp.mdb
So if you do complete backups of the Windows Directory, you should have it. I'm not sure of DNS and WINS, but best practices would have a backup DNS and WINS server in the domain anyway, so when you bring the original server back online, you can replicate them back.

 

[tumas]

in system state i will be backing up full active directory with all users and so on. if i replicate i can replicate dns, and dhcp from that link you gave me.. you think they will work?

 

[pgaliardo]

Yes - I think of you have a full backup of the server and system state and have a backup DNS and WINS server, you should be OK.