First, I must admit I'm no Microsoft person so I am probably using the
wrong names when it comes to that, sorry in advance. :-)
Most of my customers do something like this.
They backup the DC's with VE and the B/A client.
The use the B/A client to restore (reactivate?) OU's.
They only restore a DC VM when all DC's are broken like in a DR scenario.
They will build a new VM when a single DC is broken and manually give that
VM the DC role.

Time/date issues occur when you restore a DC VM in a domain when other DC's
are still running so don't do that.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
   Stefan


On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 9:23 PM, Lee, Gary <glee AT bsu DOT edu> wrote:

> We are in the process of revising our entire domain controller
> infrastructure.
>
> The new DCs will be VMs and running at the 2008 functional level.
>
> We use TSM for Ve to back up our VMs.
> How are folks handling backup / restore of domain controlers in general,
> and especially those on VMs.
>
> Thank you for your assistance.
>