Backing up and restoring Windows Server 2008 AD DS

Windows Server 2008 includes a backup tool called Windows Server Backup. This tool is not pre-installed by default. It needs to be added in "Add Features" in "Server Manager". After adding successfully, you can manage it. Found in the tool.

Windows Server 2008 AD Backup and Restore no longer backs up and restores System States like Windows Server 2000 or Windows Server 2003. Instead, you need to back up CriticalVolumes. It contains the following files:
The system Volume [This is the volume that hosts the boot files, which consists of the Bootmgr file and the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store. ]
The boot volume [This is the volume that hosts the Windows operating system and the Registry. The volume that hosts the SYSVOL tree
The volume that hosts the Active Directory database (Ntds.dit)
The volume that hosts the Active Directory database log files

Windows Server 2008 There are three backup modes:
Full server recovery
System state recover y
File/Folder recovery

You can use the Bcdedit.exe tool to switch between using normal mode or directory service restore mode to start the backup tool.
Directory service restore mode to start:
bcdedit /set safeboot dsrepair
Normal mode startup:
bcdedit /deletevalue safeboot

In Windows Server 2008, System state data contains at least the following data (depending on how many roles are on the server):
Registry
COM+ Class Registration database
Boot files, as described earlier in this topic
Active Directory Certificate Services database
Active Directory Domain Services database
SYSVOL directory
Cluster service information
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) metadirectory
System files that are under Windows Resource Protection

Let's talk about the backup and restore of ADDS in Windows Server 2008
The article is divided into the following sections:
1. Install Windows Server Backup Backup
2. Do Critical-Volumes backup for domain controllers
3. Do Full Server backup for domain controllers
4. Make scheduled tasks for domain controller backup
5. Do for domain controllers non-authoritative restore authoritative restore do
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7. Summary

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1. Install Windows Server Backup Backup Tool

In Windows Server 2008, the backup tool is not pre-installed by default, you need to add it yourself.
1. Enter oobe to open the "Initial Configuration Tasks"

2. Select "Add Features"

3. select "Windows backup Features", installed by default "Windows Server backup", if you want to be able to perform backup and restore operations in PowerShell can additionally select "Command- line Tools "

4. installation

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5. installation

6. use wbadmin.msc in the operation to exhale Windows Server Backup, or select the Windows Server Backup

this way, Windows Server Backup installation is complete.

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two do for a domain controller. Critical-Volumes Backup

1. Open Windows Server Backup and select "Backup Once"

2. Select according to the backup wizard, here Because it is the first time to use the backup tool, I have not done any scheduled tasks before, so I can only choose "Different options"

3. Select "Custom" "

4. select the letter to be backed up, and check" Enable System Recovery "

5. select a backup path, to select a local disk or a remote backup shared folder, where, I chose a local backup to disk

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6. select the target letter

7. Select "VSS Copy Backup" or "VSS Full Backup", the difference between the two can be seen in the screenshot below

8. profile

9. Backup in progress

10. Backup completed

11. check out the backup files

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do Full Server backup domain controller 1. open the Windows Server backup, and select "backup Once"

2. select

3. select "Full Server"

4. Select the backup path, you can choose to backup to the local disk or remote shared folder, here, I choose to backup to the local disk

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5. select the target letter

6. choose use "VSS Copy backup" or "VSS Full backup"

7. profile


8. start the backup



9. backup success

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is four. The controller backup plan to do the task

1. Open the Windows Server Backup, and select "Backup Schedule"

2. the wizard prompts click "Next"

3. be selected according to "Full Server" or "Custom"

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4. select the number of times per day backup


5. select the target letter
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