use snapshot to create 2nd Domain Controller

[ewalker]

We are trying to make a 2nd Domain Controller on a different server and I was going to try to take a snapshot of our existing Samba Domain Controller and copy that snapshot to new location, change the IP settings, name, etc... and start it up.

Has anyone ever tried this before?

 

[sienar]

I don't know about Samba domain controllers, but you definitely never do that with a Windows domain controller.

 

[guletz]

No, this is not possible, because any AD controller must have a uniq SID. With a clone AD you will have 2 different AD with the same SID, the same dns/kerberos records.
It will be better to create from the beginning a new additional AD controller. It takes only 5 min, on any updated linux guest.