Restoring Active Directory And System State - SonicWALL CDP 6.0 Administrator's Manual

Recovering System State and Active Directory

Restoring Active Directory and System State

Restoring Active Directory will cause the loss of any changes to Active Directory since the date
of the backup that is being restored.
SonicWALL recommends the use of redundant Active Directory domain controllers. In the case
of mirrored Active Directory domain controllers, you can optionally restore a small part of the
database rather than the entire database (for example, because some people were deleted by
mistake by the administrator or a script/program), keeping the remainder of the database up to
date. In this case, the administrator selects the old data that needs to be pushed on top of the
latest data during replication, after the server (2003/2000 only) is rebooted out of Recovery
Mode.
Restoration steps can be different depending on the computer's operating system and
configuration.
To restore System State and Active Directory using the SonicWALL CDP Agent User Interface,
perform the following steps:
In the SonicWALL CDP Agent User Interface, click the My Backups tab.
Step 1
In the left pane, click Applications. The display expands to show available backup tasks.
Step 2
Click the desired backup task. The available revisions are displayed.
Step 3
Click the desired revision. The root folder and details about the revision are displayed, including
Step 4
the date and time.
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