ACRONIS BACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 - ACTIVE DIRECTORY BACKUP AND RESTORE Manual

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  • Page 1 Active Directory backup and restore with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10...
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Introduction ......................3 Backup and Recovery overview ................3 Active Directory backup ..................3 Active Directory recovery ..................5 4.1. Domain Controller restore (other DCs are available) ............5 4.2. Domain Controller restore (no other DCs are available) ............ 6 4.3.
  • Page 3: Introduction

    This white paper is created to enable system administrators to implement their own recovery solution for Active Directory using Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 software. 2. Backup and Recovery overview Microsoft Active Directory (AD) services use a database located on the file system of a domain controller.
  • Page 4 Active Directory database and/or log have been moved to a different location. An operating system on the domain controller is upgraded, or a service pack is installed. A hotfix that changes the AD database is installed. The tombstone lifetime is changed administratively. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009...
  • Page 5: Active Directory Recovery

    (using the dcpromo.exe tool). Once replication completes, the domain controller will be up and running again. To summarize, the following steps should be completed in order to restore a domain controller when other DCs are available: Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009...
  • Page 6: Domain Controller Restore (No Other Dcs Are Available)

    If no other domain controllers are available, the data needs to be restored from a backup. One of the ways to do this is to restore the domain controller completely – like in the scenario described in Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009...
  • Page 7: Recovery Of Accidentally Deleted Information

    3. Type the corresponding restore command, such as restore subtree or restore object to perform authoritative restore of the required object (refer to ntdsutil documentation for more information). To restore the entire database, use restore database. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009...
  • Page 8: Summary

    For more information, please refer to the documentation supplied with the appropriate tools. 5. Summary Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 is a powerful backup and recovery solution, which may efficiently protect any Windows server, including Active Directory servers/domain controllers. Image-level backup technology implemented in the product allows efficient recovery of many databases, including Microsoft Active Directory.

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