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Mike85
Level 3
8 years ago

Backup Exec - Active Directory Recovery Scenarios

Hi, I am currently looking into creating a procedure for recovering AD under different scenarios: Total loss of all DCs AD corruption replicated throughout DCs Accidental Deletion -This can be d...
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  • Colin_Weaver's avatar
    Colin_Weaver
    8 years ago

    You have to put the system into Authortitaive mode BE does not do that for you

    BE just restores either the System State of the complete VM (either of which contain AD at a point im time) how you then make the result authoritatve is then an MS issue and you should look at MS articles for authoritative vs vs non-authoritative as we don't really write in depth articles covering concepts that are really the OS/Microsoft's

    and yes for a Vm you would recover the complete VM (instead of the System State) but  then take steps to put it into Authoritative before you let it communcate with other DCs (if you need the restore to be authoritative)

     

     

Mike85's avatar
Mike85
Level 3

Thanks for the quick reply Colin and valid points. 

I understand how to recover individual AD objects using GRT but am less sure about the complete AD recovery scenarios.

I was looking for a KB that walked through a step by step simplified process of full AD recovery specific to using BE.

I was also looking for more information about how BE handles DCs differently to other hosts, if at all. For instance if you restore an entire DC will it automatically reboot into DSRM and then reboot as normal? If the DC is a VM so SDR isnt available, do you just recover the entire VM? 

Thanks again!

Colin_Weaver's avatar
Colin_Weaver
Moderator
8 years ago

You have to put the system into Authortitaive mode BE does not do that for you

BE just restores either the System State of the complete VM (either of which contain AD at a point im time) how you then make the result authoritatve is then an MS issue and you should look at MS articles for authoritative vs vs non-authoritative as we don't really write in depth articles covering concepts that are really the OS/Microsoft's

and yes for a Vm you would recover the complete VM (instead of the System State) but  then take steps to put it into Authoritative before you let it communcate with other DCs (if you need the restore to be authoritative)

 

 

  • Mike85's avatar
    Mike85
    Level 3
    8 years ago

    Thanks for clearing that up!