For peoples information a scenario you need to be careful of. It will of course 
be obvious to some.

In an AD environment think carefully before recovering the winnt directory.

As a test of the backup/restore the following was done.

Backup C:\Winnt.

Do a saveset  recovery of C:\winnt saveset relocating it to  d:\recover\winnt.

Delete thecontents of D:\recover and notice errors in deleting some files in 
D:\recover\winnt\....\SYSVOL.

 Investigation showed the recovery had included the  
D:\recover\winnt\....\SYSVOL directory in the AD File Replication
service (FRS).
Deleting files in this directory deleted them from c:\winnt\....\SYSVOL.
It was necessary to copy the sysvol files from another AD server.

D:\recover\winnt\....\SYSVOL is stll part of the replication.

The docs don't mention this effect except in reference to system state 
recovery. They assume you know what you are
doing.

Other implications
A saveset recover c: from one system using AD to another to look for some 
files. What will happen with SYSVOL?

I assume you can do file level recovery and exclude sysvol. I have not tried it.

Regards

Kit

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