Backup AD servers
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Is there a best practices when using XO to do backups for AD servers? We had an issue yesterday were we restored a DC server but when the server came up the AD was not healthy and we could not replicate to it from a healthy DC. The recovery process was to demote it and add a new server.
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@Jsawyer77
You could boot into the Active Directory Service Recovery Mode (DSRM) and perform a non-authoritive recovery. You will receive the missing data from another DC.A simple backup and restore with XO is not possible if any other DC remains online. (If you have more than one single DC.)
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You really need an application aware backup with AD.
Option 1: Additional backup-software
Option 2: Combine Windows-Backup with XOA
--> A system-state-backup should be sufficient.
Option 3: Install a new DC