June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
742 pages
18h 29m
English
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Active Directory system state backup
Active Directory system state backup is required in order to restore Active Directory in a disaster, which cannot be recovered using the previously explained object level recovery options. Windows backup is supported to make the system state backup; there are many third-party backup tools, which backup Active Directory using similar technology.
In a system state backup the following files are included:
- Active Directory DC database file (ntds.dit)
- The SYSVOL folder and its files
- The certificate store
- User profiles
- IIS metabase
- Boot files
- DLL cache folder
- Registry info
- COM+ and WMI info
- Cluster service info
- Windows Resource Protection system files
After Windows Server 2008, the system state backup also ...