Re: How do you backup Active Directory 2008

2013-09-19 Thread Ryder, Michael S
In theory, AD gets backed up with "System State." A Microsoft-supported method would probably take a hybrid approach, using their tool to create the files, and then back the files up to TSM. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754472(v=ws.10).aspx You may also consider using Cristie's T

Re: How do you backup Active Directory 2008

2013-09-19 Thread Rick Harderwijk
AD restore works with Server 2003 AD and 5.5.x clients (did a DR test just last week). Not sure if things have changed with later versions, but I can hardly imagine that. Not to say it ain't so, ofcourse... Cheers, Rick On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:57 AM, Grigori Solonovitch < grigori.solonovi...@a

Re: How do you backup Active Directory 2008

2013-09-18 Thread Grigori Solonovitch
We are not backing up AD servers at all because there is no sense. It looks it is impossible to restore anything into existing AD (restored server is taken as corrupted). We are just keeping a few AD servers and install new server (propagate from existing AD) in case of AD server crash. Disaster