RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Backup

Mon, 07 Feb 2005 14:30:57 -0800

Another thing I would like to point out is that not only do you have to have a good backup strategy but also you have to test your recovery of AD from your backup system.  It is always a very useful exercise to take your tapes of AD and go to a test bench and see if you can recover.
 
Recovery testing will have you learn about such things as seizing FSMO roles, MetaData cleanup, and my personal favorite - restores to dissimilar hardware. I think I have learned more about how AD works and operates from the time spent trying to recover it than any other method. 
 
I can recommend one other white paper besides the ones already mentioned:
 
 
-Stuart Fuller

 
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 3:24 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Backup

note that it's worth to backup Group-Policies separately, as you don't want to restore your AD to fix a specific GPO.  This can be achieved very well with the GPMC (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/gpmc/gpmcwp.mspx).
 
also check out this whitepaper:
 
/Guido
 
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorge de Almeida Pinto
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 11:04 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Backup

Hi Sergio,
 
You can use whatever tool that's Windows 2000/2003 compliant to backup Active Directory. Windows 2000/2003 itself has NTBACKUP that gives you the possibility to backup to TAPE or FILE.
To backup Active Directory you must at a minimum backup the SYSTEM STATE (I always also backup the system drive -> drive with the WINDOWS dir).
 
See also the following resources for more info on this:
 
Cheers
Jorge
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sergio Sánchez Trujillo
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 10:50
To: 'ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org'
Subject: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Backup

Hello,

 

Could i do a backup of the Active Directory? How?

 

We have a tape library backup and ARCServer Software Backup... but it's not necessary to use this library.

 

Thanks

 

Sergio Sánchez


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