Re: Backing up user accounts

All ways to accomplish this have issues, such as Joe indicated
as to needed (re)permissioning and lack of sync'd passwords.

Perhaps the most simple results if your fall-back machine has
(near) identical hardware, in which case you can use a restore
with system state (and potentially a subsequent upgrade/repair
install to catch drivers for hardware difference that are not
plug-and-play detected). If you must use the subsequent repair,
then you need to reapply service and reinstall applications that
do not have migration dlls provided as part of their install, so
having identical hardware is a big plus. You might want to
consider a Virtual Server / Virtual PC / VMware approach.

"Chris" <chris01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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This is not in an active directory environment. It is a public box that we
want to keep seperate from active directory but still be able to restore
user accounts to another machine should we have to.


"Danny Sanders" <DSanders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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That is the primary reason to have a second DC. If the first fails you
have a second DC already up and running.

hth
DDS
"Chris" <chris01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Anyone if user account info (Not Active Directory) can be backed up
from one Windows 2000 machine and restored to another?

What I am looking to accomplish is to have a machine on standby where I
could quickly restore a user base to a backup machine should my primary
fail.

I don't want to replicate the hardware and all, just the user accounts.

TIA,

Chris







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