(excerpt from Symantec NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I)
A policy that backs up the Active Directory can be configured to allow the restore
of the objects and attributes in the Active Directory. The objects and attributes
can be restored locally or remotely without the interruption of restarting the
domain controllers where the restore is performed.
The Active Directory host properties offer additional configuration options for
the backup of Windows Server 2008 computers. Specifically, whether or not
NetBackup performs a consistency check if Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service
(VSS) is used as the snapshot provider.
See “Active Directory host properties” on page 66.
To create a policy to allow Active Directory restores
1 Check that the NetBackup Client Service (bpinetd) is running under the
domain administrator account on the Active Directory domain controller. In
this case, the Active Directory domain controller is the NetBackup client.
See “Configuring the log on account for the NetBackup Client Service”
on page 805.
2 In the Policy dialog box, on the Attributes tab, select MS-Windows as the
policy type. Specify the other policy attributes as needed.
3 Enable the Enable granular recovery option. If this option is not enabled,
the backup still runs, but the backup cannot produce granular restores.
4 In the Schedules tab, create schedules as needed.
Other items in the policy may use a differential or cumulative incremental
backup type, but the Active Directory items are always fully backed up.
See “Active Directory backups are full backups” on page 577.
5 In the Backup Selections tab, open the Select Directive dialog.
6 For the Directive set, select Windows 2003 or Windows 2008.
7 To back up the Active Directory, select any one of the following directives:
■ See “System_State directive” on page 558.
■ See “Shadow Copy Components:\ directive” on page 559.
■ See “ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive” on page 558.
Note: Active Directory ApplicationMode (ADAM) is a lightweight directory
service that runs as a user service. This directive can be used to back upADAM
data on computers where it is installed. However, it does not back up the
Active Directory itself.
8 In the Clients tab, select the clients as needed.
9 Save the policy.
