Restore from Time machine has not restored services

Hi all,
We recently did a Time Machine restore on one of our OS X servers. After the restore, none of the services such as Open Directory are running. As a result I couldn't log in with the normal Administrator account, and had to use the DVD to reset the root password. This is very frustrating since my machine is now basically useless. Does anyone know how to get these services running again, and why did Time Machine not restore the correct service configuration on to the server?
Thanks,
Todd

Hi.
TM is probably hardwired to do you the favor of not attempting to backup your OD databases.
Please know that you cannot reliably backup a running database externally (barring other special cases, for example other OSes, different filesystems & specialized backup software). In some cases
it might "appear" to work but the result will likely be in an inconsistent state and should not be trusted.
You should do scripted backups (google for : automating Open Directory Backup)
and see in particular, www.afp548.com/filemgmt/visit.php?lid=68
Backup your OD appropriately to a location that is accessible to TM and then use it to backup your OD export/backup.

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