Its always best to copy data from an NT server to another w2k server rather than the other way round – the troubleshooting article at mcpmag – Q&A explains the reasons why. Well worth remembering for those nt4 to windows2k3 migrations.
Anyone got any theories on this? One of our customers has a box where task manager icon is showing a high cpu usage, the bottom of taskman shows 67% used, yet the cpu usage on the processes window shows 97% idle at the same time. Screen shot shown. If the server is rebooted the problem goes away for about a week before it starts to happen again. tl_server is our telnet server application so it is normal behaviour to have lots of copies running.
The server that I had to do a full restore on yesterday was scary…After it was plugged back in the domain it would not allow clients to authenticate. I suspected that this was due to the fact that it was restored from a tape over 2 weeks old and therefore the SAM on this server was out of date with the SAM on the PDC. Trying to use netdom (the one from supplement 4 to the resource kit) kept on coming up with access denied errors and was therefore not much use. Overnight I scheduled a reboot of the pdc and did nothing else to the BDC as I was going to attempt a fix this morning…however when I got there, the users were working away – I guess the reboot had synched everything up properly (thankfully)
What a nightmare. It’s now 3 hours into the restore and I’m just cataloguing the tape for the first time….
Useful source for downloading individual files from the NT4 Resource kit