Backing up AD in a VMWare VM Using GRT Causes Job Warnings - Safe to Ignore??
Hi Everyone,
Apologies if this has come up before, but I had a search through and couldn't find anything.
We're backing up VMWare Virtual Machines on an ESX host using GRT. Some of those virtual machines are domain controllers, and we want to ensure AD is being backed up. I've selected the option in the job "Enable GRT for Microsoft Active Directory on virtual machines", but the job always completes with a warning. The warnings we're receiving are as follows, and appear for every domain controller:
V-79-57344-38724 - Directory 'E\SYSVOL\sysvol\ADname.co.uk' does not support Granular Recovery Technology (GRT). Granular restores cannot be performed for items in this directory.
Is it safe to ignore these warnings? If we had a complete system failure and had to rely on the backup, could I restore AD to a working state without these directories?
Many thanks in advance for your help.
Yes you can perform the Restore of the AD, You cannot perform Granular restore of a individual object and also the GRT selection list would not be visible > To perform GRT backup of AD you would need the active directory agent license installed on the media server.