Our RAID array which housed the File server VMDK is no more. This was a Windows Server 2003 install which was the file server and contained the DFS Namespaces.
The RAID array with all the files is intact and the data is working fine. We have created a new VM and installed Server 2008 SP2 which we were able to mount the data volumes as RAW LUN hard drives in VMWare.
I need to know if there is any possibility of restoring the DFS Namespaces and structures.
Sadly... There appears to be no system state or even a backup of the Server 2003 VMDK. :(
There is however what appears to be a backup of the namespaces in the way of a .bat file. So it looks like the previous sysadmin had a script running to backup the DFS to the .bat file. (I will restore this tomorrow to see if that is right.)
My question to you is: Is it possible to restore DFS from this .bat backup file? Is it possible to restore Server 2003 DFS namespaces to a Server 2008 SP2 install? Is there any other place where the DFS info may extracted from? (The DC is on another server, is this info stored in Active Directory and can I pull it out and manually start building a new DFS namespace?)
Thanks for the input.