August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
786 pages
20h 22m
English
Content preview from Mastering Active Directory - Second Edition
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AD system state backup
An AD system-state backup is required in order to restore AD in the event of a disaster where the database cannot be recovered using the previously explained object-level recovery options. Windows backup is supported for performing system state backups. Also, there are many third-party backup tools that use similar technology to do the AD system state backup.
In a system state backup, the following files are included:
- AD DS database file (ntds.dit)
- The SYSVOL folder and its files
- The certificate store
- User profiles
- Internet Information Services (IIS) Metabase
- Boot files
- Dynamic-link library (DLL) cache folder
- Registry info
- COM+ and WMI info
- Cluster service info
- Windows Resource Protection system files
After Windows ...