hi ,
i have been asked to make a DR plan for our domain. we have two DCs and i am trying to make a baremetal restore of our primary dc (server 2008r2 enterprise) . all fsmo roles are reside on that server . what i did was ,
1. took a system state backup to d: drive using server backup utility
2. then a full server backup to remote share
3. restored baremetal image to a same hardware(but a new server with same size of disk) on a test network
4. after completion of my restore process i removed network cable and reboot to dsrm mode
5. issued directory restore password and issued " wbadmin start systemstaterecovery -backuptarget:d -authsysvol and process was completed without any errors
when i booted in to nomal mode after recovey , i can not login to dc giving my domain admin credentials . a lite blue scree appears hole time. i tried several reboots but still in the same state.
* i am not authorized to connect recovered dc to production lan ( promoting new server to dc )
* can not keep another dc on DR site
is there any possible solutions in my case ?