Spinning Up an ADDC VM "in the Cloud" - Best Practices, Tips, Tricks, Advice on Logistics, Providers, Etc?
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Hosted is backed up to the hosting facility. If you choose Rackspace, for example, you would take a snapshot of your virtual machine and it will automatically export to RS Cloud Files (the same facility that hosts our images for the site here) and that is your backup. If you need a file based backup additionally you would likely use something like StorageCraft which is agent based and target any storage that you want. But typically you would just use the image backup on the host itself. Remember that you are looking at multi-regional high availability here so going to backup to do a system restore would be a truly epic situation.
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@scottalanmiller good info. Seems pretty straight forward. Since this is a DC, I would only be concerned if RS AND my on-site infrastructure and backups AND off-site backups some how got destroyed.
I was also wondering for future projects in a general sense.
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You are going to maintain an on premises AD DC as well?
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@scottalanmiller I was planning on it
