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mck1012@gmail.com
Posts:35
 | | 07/07/2010 7:35 PM |
| Just wondering what people are doing with AD snapshots. We have just started
to deploy win2k8R2 DCs in our forest. So we have 2 win2k8R2 DCs and about 50
2003. How often are you running the snapshots? What maintenence are you
doing to clen up old ones? Anything to watchout for in terms of drive space
or having to many snapshots?
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| PARRIS
Posts:291
| | 07/07/2010 7:46 PM |
| Can you define what you mean by snapshots?
Regards,
Mark
MVP-DS,MCT,MCITP:EA:SA,MCSE
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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 19:34:10
To: activedir<ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org>
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Subject: [ActiveDir] AD SnapShots
Just wondering what people are doing with AD snapshots. We have just started to deploy win2k8R2 DCs in our forest. So we have 2 win2k8R2 DCs and about 50 2003. How often are you running the snapshots? What maintenence are you doing to clen up old ones? Anything to watchout for in terms of drive space or having to many snapshots?
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| RickSheikh
Posts:373
| | 07/07/2010 7:54 PM |
| A snapshot is a shadow copy—created by the Volume Shadow Copy Service
(VSS)—of the volumes that contain the Active Directory database and log
files. With Active Directory snapshots, you can view the data inside such a
snapshot on a domain controller without the need to start the server in
Directory Services Restore Mode.
With AD snapshots you can mount a backup of AD DS under a different set of
ports and have read-only access to your backups through LDAP.
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Mark Parris <mark@parris.co.uk> wrote:
> Can you define what you mean by snapshots?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
> MVP-DS,MCT,MCITP:EA:SA,MCSE
>
> t.01372 740373
> m.07801 690596
>
> linkedin http://uk.linkedin.com/in/markparris
> facebook http://facebook.com/markparris
> twitter http://twitter.com/markparris
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> activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org>
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> *ReplyTo: * "activedir@mail.activedir.org" <activedir@mail.activedir.org>
> *Subject: *[ActiveDir] AD SnapShots
>
> Just wondering what people are doing with AD snapshots. We have just
> started to deploy win2k8R2 DCs in our forest. So we have 2 win2k8R2 DCs and
> about 50 2003. How often are you running the snapshots? What maintenence are
> you doing to clen up old ones? Anything to watchout for in terms of drive
> space or having to many snapshots?
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| mck1012@gmail.com
Posts:35
| | 07/07/2010 7:58 PM |
| Exactly, That is what I meant by AD snapshot.
I know how to create them, mount them, and view the contents. I am just
curious at to what others are doing with them. Like how often they are
taking a snapshot, how many they are keeping, what is the cleanup process
for old ones, etc....
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Rick Sheikh <ricksheikh@gmail.com> wrote:
> A snapshot is a shadow copy—created by the Volume Shadow Copy Service
> (VSS)—of the volumes that contain the Active Directory database and log
> files. With Active Directory snapshots, you can view the data inside such a
> snapshot on a domain controller without the need to start the server in
> Directory Services Restore Mode.
>
> With AD snapshots you can mount a backup of AD DS under a different set of
> ports and have read-only access to your backups through LDAP.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Mark Parris <mark@parris.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Can you define what you mean by snapshots?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> MVP-DS,MCT,MCITP:EA:SA,MCSE
>>
>> t.01372 740373
>> m.07801 690596
>>
>> linkedin http://uk.linkedin.com/in/markparris
>> facebook http://facebook.com/markparris
>> twitter http://twitter.com/markparris
>> ------------------------------
>> *From: *mck1012 <mck1012@gmail.com>
>> *Sender: *"activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org" <
>> activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org>
>> *Date: *Wed, 7 Jul 2010 19:34:10 +0100
>> *To: *activedir<ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org>
>> *ReplyTo: *"activedir@mail.activedir.org" <activedir@mail.activedir.org>
>> *Subject: *[ActiveDir] AD SnapShots
>>
>> Just wondering what people are doing with AD snapshots. We have just
>> started to deploy win2k8R2 DCs in our forest. So we have 2 win2k8R2 DCs and
>> about 50 2003. How often are you running the snapshots? What maintenence are
>> you doing to clen up old ones? Anything to watchout for in terms of drive
>> space or having to many snapshots?
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| PARRIS
Posts:291
| | 07/07/2010 8:00 PM |
| I know what an Active Directory Snapshot is, some people also refer to Vmware utilising snapshots - hence the question.
Regards,
Mark
MVP-DS,MCT,MCITP:EA:SA,MCSE
t.01372 740373
m.07801 690596
linkedin http://uk.linkedin.com/in/markparris
facebook http://facebook.com/markparris
twitter http://twitter.com/markparris
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Sheikh <ricksheikh@gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 19:52:00
To: activedir@mail.activedir.org<activedir@mail.activedir.org>
Reply-To: "activedir@mail.activedir.org" <activedir@mail.activedir.org>
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] AD SnapShots
A snapshot is a shadow copy—created by the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)—of the volumes that contain the Active Directory database and log files. With Active Directory snapshots, you can view the data inside such a snapshot on a domain controller without the need to start the server in Directory Services Restore Mode.
With AD snapshots you can mount a backup of AD DS under a different set of ports and have read-only access to your backups through LDAP.
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Mark Parris <mark@parris.co.uk<mailto:mark@parris.co.uk>> wrote:
Can you define what you mean by snapshots?
Regards,
Mark
MVP-DS,MCT,MCITP:EA:SA,MCSE
t.01372 740373
m.07801 690596
linkedin http://uk.linkedin.com/in/markparris
facebook http://facebook.com/markparris
twitter http://twitter.com/markparris
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Subject: [ActiveDir] AD SnapShots
Just wondering what people are doing with AD snapshots. We have just started to deploy win2k8R2 DCs in our forest. So we have 2 win2k8R2 DCs and about 50 2003. How often are you running the snapshots? What maintenence are you doing to clen up old ones? Anything to watchout for in terms of drive space or having to many snapshots?
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| Tony
Posts:150
| | 07/07/2010 9:22 PM |
| I generally schedule snapshots once a day and set aside 10% of the volume
(default) for the copies. How often they are overwritten depends on the
amount of churn and the overall volume size. Older copies get overwritten
when the area of disk set aside for shadow copies reaches its limit.
Here's an example of the schtasks syntax for scheduling the snapshots:
http://www.open-a-socket.com/index.php/2008/11/20/how-to-schedule-active-dir
ectory-snapshots-in-windows-server-2008/
Tony
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To: activedir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] AD SnapShots
Exactly, That is what I meant by AD snapshot.
I know how to create them, mount them, and view the contents. I am just
curious at to what others are doing with them. Like how often they are
taking a snapshot, how many they are keeping, what is the cleanup process
for old ones, etc....
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Rick Sheikh <ricksheikh@gmail.com> wrote:
A snapshot is a shadow copy-created by the Volume Shadow Copy Service
(VSS)-of the volumes that contain the Active Directory database and log
files. With Active Directory snapshots, you can view the data inside such a
snapshot on a domain controller without the need to start the server in
Directory Services Restore Mode.
With AD snapshots you can mount a backup of AD DS under a different set of
ports and have read-only access to your backups through LDAP.
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Mark Parris <mark@parris.co.uk> wrote:
Can you define what you mean by snapshots?
Regards,
Mark
MVP-DS,MCT,MCITP:EA:SA,MCSE
t.01372 740373
m.07801 690596
linkedin http://uk.linkedin.com/in/markparris
facebook http://facebook.com/markparris
twitter http://twitter.com/markparris
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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 19:34:10 +0100
To: activedir<ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org>
ReplyTo: "activedir@mail.activedir.org" <activedir@mail.activedir.org>
Subject: [ActiveDir] AD SnapShots
Just wondering what people are doing with AD snapshots. We have just started
to deploy win2k8R2 DCs in our forest. So we have 2 win2k8R2 DCs and about 50
2003. How often are you running the snapshots? What maintenence are you
doing to clen up old ones? Anything to watchout for in terms of drive space
or having to many snapshots?
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