Windows Server® 2008 Active Directory® Resource Kit

Chapter 15. Active Directory Disaster Recovery

In this chapter:
Planning for a Disaster
Active Directory Data Storage
Backing Up Active Directory
Restoring Active Directory
Summary
Best Practices
Additional Resources

Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) is perhaps the most critical network service that you will deploy on your network. If the Active Directory infrastructure fails, users on your network will be extremely limited in what they can do. Almost all network services on a Windows Server 2008 network depend on users authenticating to Active Directory before they access any network resource. Because Active Directory is critical, you must apply at least the same level of preparation to Active Directory disaster prevention and recovery ...