Directory Controller System State Restores w/ NetBackup 4.5 - Please Help

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Does any one have proven procedures, or can they point me to the properly documented procedures for restoring the System State on an Active Directory Domain Controller with NetBackup ver. 4.5? (both 2000 and 2003, if there are any differences).

I need to know how to:

1. Restore everything, non-authoritatively
2. How to mark the sysvol as primary during the restore process
3. How to do an authoritative restore Total or Partial

Veritas keeps pointing me to Microsoft Documentation to augment theirs, but the the Microsoft documentation has little gems such as:

"8. Click the appropriate backup media and the system state to restore.

NOTE: During the restore operation, the Winnt\Sysvol folder must also be selected to be restored to have a working sysvol after the recovery process. Be sure that the advanced option to restore "junction points and data" is also selected prior to the restore. This ensures that sysvol junction points are re-created.

How is this done with Veritas????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Any help would be greatly appreciated as my frustration level is starting to mount!! Thanks in advance.

[Jeffrey_Redingt]

This technote has information on non-authoritative restores. It also contains a little information that may be helpful with regards to the other processes. Essentially and in very simple terms an authoritative restore is the same as a non authoritative except that after the restore and before the reboot you run the ntdsutil utility.

http://support.veritas.com/docs/264385

This is a technote on Authoritative restores that is step-by step. It references 3.4 but the steps are roughly the same in 4.5 and should give you the guidance you need:

http://support.veritas.com/docs/236363