Active Directory maintains a multi-master database. like any other database there can be data corruptions, crashes, data lost etc. In my entire career, I still did not come across with a situation that a full database recovery is required in production environment. The reason is AD DS database is keep replicating to other available Domain Controllers and it is very rare that all the available…
In one of my previous posts I explain what system state is and how we can use it to backup active directory data. With windows 2008 server Microsoft introduces a new feature called active directory snapshots which can use to backup active directory data. Basically this tools creates a shadow copy of volumes that holds active directory data (Database and logs) using “Volume Shadow Copy…
