And if that is all up and running, you could go for and isolated recovery 
network and for testing purposes prepare a AD server on the live LAN and 
after it's synced move it to the DR LAN. That's the way we test it.


On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:02:49 -0400, Mason, Wilbur 
<Wilbur.Mason AT PFIZER DOT COM> wrote:

>You are getting RPC errors because of some name resolution issues. Put
>the backup server name and IP address in the host file of the Win2K3
>server and also put the win2k3 server name and ip address in the host
>file of the backup server.
>I am also assuming that the real server that was backed up is not
>presently on the network.
>
>Wilbur
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
>On Behalf Of Sackson [US], Mark A.
>Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 8:41 AM
>To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
>Subject: [Networker] disaster recovery to a different server
>
>We are testing our DR plan on a W2k3 server. We are trying to restore
>the backup to a new box, that is not part of the domain, but can
>communicate with the NetWorker server. Every time we try to restore the
>data, we get a RPC error.
>
>Legato says that the new server has to be part of the same domain as the
>original server. While in a real DR, we would probably do this, but of
>our test, we are afraid that the following will occure:
>
>1. Join the recovery server to the domain - this will change the GUID
>associated with the server in AD and set a new kerb password on the
>computer account
>2. Perform full system recovery on the recovery server, including system
>state - this will restore the previous GUID and kerb password
>3. Server reboots with previous GUID and attempts to log into the
>domain.  What happens?
>
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Mark
>
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