Protecting Active Directory
Posted by Kevin Lim on August 25, 2008
DPM is utilizing the native Windows Backup Utility for backing up and restoring Active Directory system state.
Below are the steps:-
AD is protected via System State. The following screen shot shows a manual creation of recovery point.
Upon selecting the DC’s System State, we get the following.
On the DPM server, using the Backup tool found in the Start\All Programs\Accessories\System Tool menu, the file can be restore into either the original location, alternate location or single folder.
Some additional options in Windows Backup as below.
Restore progress as captured below.
The restoration completed.
The report button, takes us to the following.
The following is a screenshot showing the recovery of the DC’s System State into a .bkf file.
