Chapter 33. Recovering from a Disaster

In This Chapter

• Validating Backup Data and Procedures

• Isolating Failures

• Site Failure Recovery

• Recovering from a Disk Failure

• Resolving Boot Failure Problems

• Recovering from a Complete Server Failure

• Resolving Windows Server 2003 Networking Services Errors

• Re-creating Windows Server 2003 File Services and Data

• Restoring Internet Information Services

• Re-establishing the Cluster Service

• Resolving Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller Failure

• Restoring Active Directory

• Recovering the Removable Storage Database

• Restoring Remote Storage Database

• Achieving 99.999% Uptime Using Windows Server 2003

During a failure or after a disaster, many organizations figure out that their disaster recovery plans could have been bettera lot better. Organizations not only should plan for different types of failures and disasters, but they also should periodically simulate a failure to ensure that the plans are correct, up-to-date, and complete. If the appropriate level of disaster planning has been performed, as outlined in Chapter 32, "Backing Up a Windows Server 2003 Environment," organizations can recover from Windows Server 2003 failures. This chapter offers the recommended and practical approach to recovery.