What is Veeam Explorer for Active Directory?
Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Active Directory allows you to restore and export Active Directory objects and containers from backups created in Veeam Backup & Replication.
Does Veeam Backup Active Directory?
Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Active Directory allows you to restore and export Active Directory and schema objects from backups created in Veeam Backup & Replication.
How do I add Active Directory to Veeam Backup?
To launch Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Active Directory from Veeam Backup & Replication:
- Open the Home view.
- In the inventory pane, select the Backups or Replicas node.
- In the working area, select the necessary machine in the backup or VM replica and click Application Items > Microsoft Active Directory on the ribbon.
How do I restore an AD object in Veeam?
To restore Active Directory objects, do the following:
- Launch the Restore wizard.
- Specify connection parameters.
- Specify the restore location.
- Specify password restore options.
- Specify the account state.
- Specify restore options.
- Specify attributes to restore.
How do I backup an Active Directory database?
Backup the Active Directory database
- Now go to the Server Manager and click on Tools >> Windows Server Backup, in order to open it.
- Once the server backup opens, click on Backup Once to initiate a manual AD database backup.
Do I need to backup all of my domain controllers?
You should absolutely still be doing a backup of Active directory. All domain controllers can fail, database corruption can occur, viruses, ransomware or some other disaster could wipe out all domain controllers. In this situation, you would need to restore it from a backup.
How do I restore a domain controller from Active Directory backup?
Restoring DC from Backup Run the msconfig command, go to the Boot tab and select the Active Directory Repair option. After restarting Windows Server will boot into DSRM mode (Directory Services Restore Mode). Start Windows Server Backup (wbadmin) and select Recover.
Does Veeam agent install SQL Server?
Microsoft SQL Server is installed within the Veeam Agent deployment process only if you added the target computer to the backup policy.
Can Veeam use MySQL?
Veeam Agent for Linux supports processing of MySQL database system version 5.6 – 8.0.
How can you backup an Active Directory?
You can use either Windows Server backup or Wbadmin.exe to perform a System State backup of a domain controller to back up Active Directory. Microsoft recommends using either a dedicated internal disk or an external removable disk such as a USB hard disk to perform the backups.
What are the 5 FSMO Active Directory roles?
Currently in Windows there are five FSMO roles:
- Schema master.
- Domain naming master.
- RID master.
- PDC emulator.
- Infrastructure master.