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Orangoutang
Level 3
12 years ago

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 ...
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  • RahulG's avatar
    RahulG
    12 years ago

    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.

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Orangoutang
Level 3
12 years ago

The AD backup (using the agent) was successful, so I think to be on the safe side I'll run both jobs every evening - the VM GRT backup job and a direct AD backup using the agent. Thanks again for your help.