Creating a policy that allows Active Directory granular restores
A NetBackup policy that backs up the Active Directory can be configured to allow the restore of the objects and attributes in the Active Directory. The objects and attributes can be restored locally or remotely without the interruption of restarting the domain controllers where the restore is performed.
The Active Directory host properties offer additional configuration options for the backup of Windows Server 2008 computers. Specifically, whether or not NetBackup performs a consistency check if Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) is used as the snapshot provider.
See Active Directory host properties.
To create a policy to allow Active Directory restores
- Check that the NetBackup Legacy Client Service (bpinetd) is running under the domain administrator account on the Active Directory domain controller. In this case, the Active Directory domain controller is the NetBackup client.
- In the Policy dialog box, on the Attributes tab, select MS-Windows as the policy type. Specify the other policy attributes as needed.
- Enable the Enable granular recovery option. If this option is not enabled, the backup still runs, but the backup cannot produce granular restores.
- In the Schedules tab, create schedules as needed.
Other items in the policy may use a differential or cumulative incremental backup type, but the Active Directory items are always fully backed up.
- In the Backup Selections tab, open the Select Directive dialog.
- For the Directive set, select Windows 2003 or Windows 2008.
- To back up the Active Directory, select any one of the following directives:
- In the Clients tab, select the clients as needed.
- Save the policy.