139 Chapter 4: Active Directory Domain Services
Hands-On Exercise: Performing a Non-authoritative
Restore of Active Directory
In this exercise we will perform a non-authoritative restore of Active Directory. Unlike
the procedure for installing Active Directory from a restored backup, this assumes that
the server on which you will be performing this is already a domain controller with AD
DS installed. In this example, I assume that you have made a critical volume backup to a
separate drive on your server (the E: drive).
1. Log on to the server to which you want to restore, and open a command
prompt.
2. Run the following command sequence to restart the server in Directory
Services Restore Mode (DSRM):
bcdedit /set safeboot dsrepair
shutdown -t 0 -r
3. Click Switch User at the logon screen.
4. Click Other User.
5. Enter .\Administrator as the username and the DSRM password; then log in.
6. Open a command prompt.
7. Enter Diskpart then press enter.
8. Enter list vol and press enter.
9. Note the drive letter assigned to the volume where you created your critical
volume backup based on the disk label.
10. Enter exit and press enter.
11. Run the following command (replace E: with the appropriate driver letter of
your backup volume):
Wbadmin get versions -backuptarget:E:
12. Note the version identifier for your backup. It should be in the format MM/
DD/YYYY-HH:MM??”for example, 09/26/2007-22:30.
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