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#Cloudberry backup restore how to#
#Cloudberry backup restore install#
#Cloudberry backup restore software#
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#Cloudberry backup restore software#

Once you choose the destination folder and click the “Select folder” button the software will start the restore plan automatically.

When you hit it the pop-up window shows you your current file structure and you should choose the destination folder where to restore this file. Right-click on the file brings the “Restore to” option. Navigate to a proper folder and choose a file to restore.

In the opened window you will see a file structure of your server.

Use the right-click to see the drop-down menu and choose the “File Level Restore” option. When you click on the image-based backup in the left panel its content will appear in the right panel. On the left side of the window choose the storage with the image-based backup.

#Cloudberry backup restore windows#

Reboot the domain controller into the Directory Services Restore mode and launch the CloudBerry Backup for Windows agent.

Res1.log and Res2.log (reserve transaction logs)īy default, these files are located in the %systemroot%\NTDS folder.

The AD database consists of the following files:

If the AD database becomes corrupted on the file level rather than on the AD logic/schema level the way to recover it is to pull the corrupted files from the Image-based backup using Item-level restore option. If your AD database gets corrupted and the AD service doesn’t start - you need to recover only the database, no need to restore the whole server. Reboot the computer and make sure the Active Directory service has started successfully.NOTE: If your domain has only one domain controller, it is a good idea to run a backup at least daily. Run the CloudBerry Backup Restore process. This is especially important since all the information created since the last backup will be lost.

#Cloudberry backup restore how to#

If you are not yet familiar with the Bare metal recovery process please refer to this step by step guide on how to perform it:Ĭonfigure a Restore plan and make sure to select the latest available backup.

#Cloudberry backup restore install#

Install CloudBerry Backup for Windows on a server with similar hardware and create a bootable USB device. Here are the steps to recover the last or the only domain controller to new hardware: Some critical files were accidentally deleted from the Active Directory. There was only one DC in the domain and this DC has crashed or when all domain controllers are lost.Īctive Directory database is corrupted and the AD service doesn’t start. Let’s consider several possible scenarios when you need to recover the Active Directory How to recover the Microsoft Active Directory When the backup is done - you have all the information required to recover the domain controller from scratch to new hardware (so-called bare metal recovery) with previously saved Active Directory settings. Since the database and the transaction logs may be stored on different volumes make sure to include both in the backup.

Thus, it allows us to back up the domain controller’s system volume, boot volume, and the volumes where the AD database and transaction logs are located.īy default, the Active Directory database is located in the %systemroot%\NTDS folder (C:\Windows\NTDS) of a domain controller. Image-based backup allows the backup and recovery of the whole computer including the state and the structure of its drives and the operating system. How to backup the Microsoft Active Directory Here’s how you perform a backup of the Active Directory using the image-based backup feature in CloudBerry Backup. While the backup process doesn't vary much for these network setups, the restore process will be different.

There are more than one domain controller in a network and the information stored in the database is constantly replicated between multiple domain controllers.

A network with only one domain controller (DC).

Further in the article, we will consider two possible network configurations: Microsoft Active Directory services use a database located on the file system of a domain controller. In this article, we will overview how you can recover an Active Directory (AD) database with CloudBerry Backup for Windows.Īctive Directory is a Microsoft product that consists of several services that run on Windows Server to manage permissions and access to networked resources.ĪD DS is a distributed database that stores and manages information about network resources as well as application-specific data from directory-enabled applications. Backup and recovery of the Microsoft Active Directory (AD) with CloudBerry Backup