Requirements - Full Server Recovery of a Domain Controller
Requirements - Full Server Recovery of a Domain Controller
02 February 2011
09:09
When you perform a full server recovery, you recover all volumes from the backup set to the server. The procedure to perform full server recovery of a domain controller is the same as for any server running Windows Server 2008. Whenever you perform a full server recovery of a domain controller, you perform a nonauthoritative restore of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).
You can use these procedures to perform full server recovery of a domain controller by using Windows Complete PC Restore (a graphical user interface (GUI) tool) and Wbadmin.exe from the command line
Requirements for performing a full server recovery of a domain controller
Full server recovery of a domain controller has the following requirements:
- You must have a full server backup available. This type of backup contains all volumes that were on the server at the time that you made the backup.
- You can store the backup on a separate, internal or external hard drive or a DVD. If you performed a manual backup, you can perform a full server recovery from a network shared folder.
| Note |
| Windows Server Backup does not enumerate drives that are not attached or turned on when you start the Recovery Wizard. If you attach or turn on a drive after you start the wizard, and you do not see it in the list of backup locations that you can restore from, close, and then restart Windows Server Backup. |
- You must have the Windows Server 2008 operating system DVD or have Windows RE installed on a different partition than the critical partitions that are used by the domain controller that you are restoring.
- If you are recovering to new hardware, the new hardware must provide enough storage capacity to recover all volumes. In other words, the hard drives that you are recovering data to must be as large as-or larger than-the drives that are included in the backup set.
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