Re: *Long Post* Help avoid plan E (windows server 2003 DR)?

["Lukas Beeler" <lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:57 AM, Roger Vicker, CCP <rv-tech@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> After the Windows splash screen from the reboot it BSOD'd with
> PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Stop 0x000006b (0x0000007a, 0x00000008,
> 0x00000000, 0x00000000). Same thing with safe modes. BOO!!!

Okay, i believe you probably already found this link, but i'll paste it anway:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/163240

To me, it looks like either your backup itself is faulty or your
restore procedure. I don't know ArcServe, so i can't tell which one it
is.

A thing you might want to try is a repair install with a CD that has
the same service pack level as the current backup should have. If
necessary, you might need to slipstream a CD yourself.

> to restore everything including the registry and AD with full overwrite.

So the machine is a domain controller? A domain controller should not
be restored from Backup, usually. Instead, you use ntdsutil metadata
cleanup to remove the old DC account from AD, and then reinstall a
blank machine and promote it using dcpromo. It will then replicate all
it's AD data from one of your other DCs.

Still, restoring a DC from Backup should still be possible, and
shouldn't be a problem as long as the backup isn't later than the
tombstone lifetime of your domain.