DNS Disaster Recovery

[Kishor Yadav]

Hi,
I have windows 2003 active directory integrated DNS zones.
I want to make a dns disaster recovery plan.
I would be thankful, if somebody helps me, what are the
disaster recovery methods available and detail of methods.

Thank you,
K L Yadav

[Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]]

At www.reskit.net/scripts there is a tool named DNSDump that will export or
import all zones to a directory that can be backed up or stored elsewhere.

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[Mark]

Your system state backup of a Domain Controller will cover this.
Simply do a system state restore, and mark DNS authoritive, it will be
propgated out to the rest of your DC's.

Another option is to keep a standby DC, on a 24 hours replication
boundary. If you need to recover your DNS, simply mark this server as
authoritive in AD and adjust the replication boundary, it will
replicate back out the all the other DC's.

[dew]

1. Stop the DNS service.
2. Start Regedit and navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\DNS.
3. Right-click the DNS folder and choose Export. Give the file the name dns1
and press Enter.
4. Now navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\
DNS Server.
5. Right-click the DNS Server folder and choose Export. Name the file dns2
and press Enter.
You’ve just created two Registry files called dns1.reg and dns2.reg. Put
them on a floppy or some
other storage location that’s not on the server.
Look in your \Windows\System32\DNS directory and copy all of the files with
the extension .dns
to wherever you stored the .reg files. Now you’re backed up; restart the DNS
service.