In fact, NTBACKUP has been deprecated in Windows Server 2008
and replaced by Windows Server Backup. Windows Server Backup is not installed by
default on Windows Server 2008, so it must be installed by running the Add Features
Wizard from Server Manager. To back up the System State, you must back up the entire
volume on which the system files reside. As a result, Microsoft??™s best practices guidelines
recommend that operating system files (%WINDIR%), Active Directory database (ntds
.dit) and log files, and SYSVOL all be stored on a volume that does not contain user data
or application data.
IMPORTANT Before you can perform any kind of backup or restore of AD DS, you must install
Windows Server Backup.
Depending on how often your Active Directory database changes, you will want
to back up your Active Directory database at least once a day. You can back up the full
server or only critical volumes that will be needed to restore your AD DS on either the
same or a new physical server. Critical volumes contain the following:
?–? Operating system files (the entire %WINDIR% directory)
?– Registry
?– Ntds.dit database file and associated log files
?–? SYSVOL folders
I won??™t go over how to use Window Server Backup again in this chapter. Chapter 3
discusses it fully. The important thing to remember is that you must minimally back up
all the volumes containing the information listed here as part of the critical volumes.
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