http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm/archive/2011/10/31/troubleshooting-data-protection-manager-system-state-and-bare-metal-backup.aspxHello, Shane Brasher here. I’d like to go over some very basic troubleshooting steps used to narrow down some common causes on initial replication and just plain replication failures for System State and Bare Metal backups. Troubleshooting a System Stateen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm/archive/2011/10/31/troubleshooting-data-protection-manager-system-state-and-bare-metal-backup.aspx#3506041Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:26:16 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3506041Thomas Israelsen<p>&quot;263532 How to perform a disaster recovery restoration of Active Directory on a computer with a different hardware configuration&quot; - This is an article about Windows 2000! Who could possibly be interested in that??</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3506041" width="1" height="1">