May 2005
Intermediate to advanced
1176 pages
28h 24m
English
To recover a certification authority (CA), you should have a complete backup of the entire server made with the native ntbackup program. The complete backup should include system state data. (Note that the IIS metabase backup is required to restore the CA, and the system state data backup will back this up.) In addition to this backup, consider separate backups of
Certificate database
CA keys
IIS metabase
IIS web content pages
If this data is available, you may be able to recover certificate services more quickly. For example, if the IIS server is intact, you might be able to remove and reinstall certificate services using the existing CA keys and then restore the certificate database. You also might be able to do ...
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