Paul
Tue Feb 19 11:41:56 PST 2008
And another piece of related data I just found out kind of a bit different.
"It is 'supported' to run a restore in DS-stopped mode, as long as you do a
reboot afterwards. "
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"Paul Bergson [MVP-DS]" <pbergson@allete_nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Well I got an answer back from a source and I guess it isn't supported at
> this time. So disregard, answer is below.
>
> "Restore without reboot is not supported because we cannot guarantee that
> all
> internal memory caches are refreshed following restore + AD DS service
> start. LSA caches a whole lot of data in memory (which initially comes
> from
> AD), and there's no way to make it reload this data without a reboot.
>
> It's understood that in most cases, a restore won't change any system data
> (such as domain name or sid). However, there's no way to enforce that. So,
> we decided to make this unsupported. To stay within support territory, you
> must reboot after a restore."
>
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> "Paul Bergson [MVP-DS]" <pbergson@allete_nospam.com> wrote in message
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>> Confused on this one.
>>
>>
>>
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>> Why can't I do a non-authoritative restore by stopping AD DS as opposed
>> to having to reboot and use DSRM (I haven't tried this but the article
>> doesn't provide the option)? According to the article link this is the
>> only way to go and this makes no sense to me and seems that AD DS as a
>> service should be allowed to do this and would be beneficial because of
>> it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Anyone have a definitive answer? I will find time to try in the future,
>> but I am curious to know.
>>
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>>
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/library/510b106b-e7fb-42a5-bcb2-0c3278a5d73e1033.mspx?mfr=true
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>> Paul Bergson
>> MVP - Directory Services
>> MCT, MCSE, MCSA, Security+, BS CSci
>> 2003, 2000 (Early Achiever), NT
>>
>>
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