Anyone out there a Windows Server MSCE - I am in the Shit...

[virge666]

Evening all... thought I would give this a go as I will be up all night anyway...

Think I have a corrupt Active directory on SBS 2008... need someone to bounce ideas off. DSRM is not available...

Anyone bored and want their evening ruined ?

[PeteyD]

nope. you are ***t.

[virge666]

nope. you are ***t.

I thought I had a reply . . . my day was going to be saved... but no.

* Sigh *

[PeteyD]

Sorry to generate false hope.

[Peppas]

Have you tried turning it off and on?

[virge666]

Have you tried turning it off and on?

Ya think ya funny...

[kunkie]

Hey mate,

you said DSRM not availiable, how about a backup of your server state? even if its a few weeks old shouldnt cause much data loss with a state only restore...?

[virge666]

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[virge666]

Hey mate,

you said DSRM not availiable, how about a backup of your server state? even if its a few weeks old shouldnt cause much data loss with a state only restore...?

That is what we are trying... but one of my employees wasn't backing it up.

esentutl is working overtime trying to repair.

Is there a system state copy on a basic SBS 2008 anywhere ?

[PeteyD]

cross fingers and toes.

[virge666]

And I avoid being sued . . .

We are back. may thanks to Pete and Peppas - couldn't have done it without you !

[PeteyD]

Always there for moral support.

Get your back up strategy fixed.

[kunkie]

Ouch... without recent backups could be tricky... is there only the one server or does AD replicate across to another on your domain? im assuming its only the 1 server setup being SBS?

even an old backup should get you mostly out of the brown stuff, may lose a few users etc but your group policies etc shouldnt have changed too much since being set up i wouldnt think.

edit - while typing youve sorted it! good stuff

[Peppas]

Hey man, if it works for $2.5mil linacs then I knew it'd work for you :)

[virge666]

Ouch... without recent backups could be tricky... is there only the one server or does AD replicate across to another on your domain? im assuming its only the 1 server setup being SBS?

even an old backup should get you mostly out of the brown stuff, may lose a few users etc but your group policies etc shouldnt have changed too much since being set up i wouldnt think.

edit - while typing youve sorted it! good stuff

Thanks Kunkie - that was a close one.... now off to setup Backup Exec.

[Iain]

Have you tried turning it off and on?That's how we fix trains!!

[virge666]

That's how we fix trains!!

and iPhones...

[kunkie]

Thanks Kunkie - that was a close one.... now off to setup Backup Exec.

no worries, glad it worked out for you mate, having to setup a server again due to the lack of backups sucks big time!

cheers
Ben