here is a little more regarding the server issue I had. Two days ago, i tried logging into my web server and was told it could not locate the DC. This lead me to the DC where I discovered a drive going bad on the RAID array. Now I don’t have a fancy array. In fact this array is composed of four 4gig Seagate drives in a RAID5 set managed my Windows. The data on the drive was the pagefile, the Exchange Logs, SQL Logs, and some junk I dropped them from time to time.

The best I can tell is that something in the pagefile got whacked, which in turn whacked AD, which in turn whacked “something” because even my Authoritative System State restores did not resolve the issue. I mentioned before that I would probably rebuild anyway which is what I did. The original DC is offline as I still have data to pull off. I have already mograted my mail from that server to the new one and restored service. The blog was offline for a long while as I made a change in my firewall that inadvertently knocked the blog out.

Still on the blocks is to suck the remaining data off the failing DC, and then rebuild it as a secondary DC. The rebuild cleaned up the server substantially but I have afew services to get back in place such as IAS and Quarantine to provide for remote access security.

I have bee detailing the rebuilds (yup…plural….I decided to put a new ISA server in place) and will post the details to the blog when it all gets wrapped up.

 

Cheers!