I recently took this job as a contractor to help move a company as their windows admin. It’s a cluster F of pc's as nt 4.0 and 2000 servers, as well as compaq dl320's and dl380s. After the move the domain controller crashed big time. And what I found was the disk mirror was not working on top of that. No tape backup strategy………….get my drift. After the domain controller went down, promoted a bdc and found that the replication was not working properly, so I had to do a lot of tweaking to get a lot of the servers showing up in server manager etc. and pcs back online. Well, Then when I was trying to rebuild the PDC and join it to the domain I get this error: The DNS SRV record is not registered in DNS When I did the research and found that my DNS does not have a SRV for the current PDC. Back to backups, the last known good copy of the zone until I came onboard, was back in 2002. Unfortunately until I realized what I needed to restore, the tape was overwritten by the Unix guy without my knowledge…..!!!!!!!XXXXXXX. So did some digging and found an earlier version on another server dated 7/25/05 which was before the domain controller crashed, as well as a copy on the original DNS server with the same date. Now this is NT4.0. Can I stop DNS, rename the current zone file for a backup, then copy this file into the area, restart DNS and will that work? And do I need to do the same for the reverse lookup file as well? Current file is rv.tss.sls.acs-inc.com.dns I need to get another BDC online so I can stop stressing out. Tape backup system here is on a workstation that has backupexec as well as a DNS server, as well as a Print Server. Too much for such a little system.

Never tried (or had to try that) but, in theory it could work.