Active Directory

[ober67]

Hi everyone,

I just want to check and see if I am backing up everything that is required in order to do a restore of Active Directory.

1 System State

2 and this is where I am not sure entire c:\ ?

or just c:\windows

or c:\windows\system32


thanks

 

[gyuzik]

Systemstate will backup the AD structure, no need to backup the c:\win* dir.

I would also hightly recommend performing a ntbackup of systemstate and saving it to a flat file in addition to.

Some info on ntbackup.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc961924.aspx

 

[JonRoenick]

I suggest using ntbackup (or wbadmin for 2k8) for SystemStates. Reason being is that TSM has issues doing doing authoritative restores for AD, the USN's on objects do not increment properly.

 

[gyuzik]

We recently upgraded our domain controllers to Server 2008 R2.

On our 2003 server I was using NTBackup for the systemstate backups as it was well documented TSM had issues when it came time for a complete AD restore. Has this issue been resolved in 2008? I know ntbackup has been changed to wbadmin and I have a operation script running right now but I am just curious if this is neccessary.

Thanks

 

[JonRoenick]

We recently upgraded our domain controllers to Server 2008 R2.

On our 2003 server I was using NTBackup for the systemstate backups as it was well documented TSM had issues when it came time for a complete AD restore. Has this issue been resolved in 2008? I know ntbackup has been changed to wbadmin and I have a operation script running right now but I am just curious if this is neccessary.

Thanks

With 2008, the new version of TSM Client integrates *VERY* well with AD. The SystemState, as a whole, i don't quite understand why it backs up the way it does. But the AD portion is really sophisticated behind the scenes. The BA client can restore deleted objects on the fly!