The difference between a non-authorative restore and an authorative restore
is that after restoring the System Object you run the NTDSUTIL utility to
make the entire AD, or only a part of the tree authoritative. All this does
in increase the replication ID for those objects by 10,000. When the server
is then rebooted the objects with the higher ID will be replicated to the
domain.

ALL restores of AD are non-authorative. You make it authoritative by running
the NTDSUTIL command supplied by Microsoft.

Bill boyer
DSS, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Jon Adams
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 6:17 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Windows 2000 Domain Controller Authoritative Restore?


>From what I can tell, Tivoli says that we can do non-authoritative domain
controller restores only.  However, while they may not support it, what does
anyone actually know about doing it?  I don't want to look at another
product just to backup my domain controllers while TSM works for everything
else.  Thanks!


Regards,
_______________________________________________

Jon R. Adams
Systems Engineer
Infrastructure Technical Support, OSS
Premera Blue Cross   <http://www.premera.com>
Work: 425-918-5770 / mailto:jon.adams AT premera DOT com
Pager: 425-886-6155 / mailto:4258866155 AT archwireless DOT net

"There are only 10 kinds of people in this world - those that know binary
and those that do not."

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