+4We are doing an Active Directory backup on a daily schedule.
Though all objects seem to show up in a restore window with the latest timestamp, the Microsoft tool
>repadmin.exe /showbackup
shows old timestamps, as if there has never ran an AD backup.
Has anyone else encountered this discrepancy? Is this by design or a misconfiguration on our side?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Mark
Best answer by Mike Struening
Hi
I found a few cases with the exact same question. Here’s the best written explanation I found:
Informed customer that the Active Directory agent is an object-level backup, which does not backup the AD database itself, so it won't update its backup time.
Only a System State backup will backup the AD database, so the best option is to use the File System agent to backup the domain controller, and not a Virtual Server Agent backup, as this is recommended by Microsoft.
Let me know if that explains everything!
+22Hi
I found a few cases with the exact same question. Here’s the best written explanation I found:
Informed customer that the Active Directory agent is an object-level backup, which does not backup the AD database itself, so it won't update its backup time.
Only a System State backup will backup the AD database, so the best option is to use the File System agent to backup the domain controller, and not a Virtual Server Agent backup, as this is recommended by Microsoft.
Let me know if that explains everything!
+4Hi Mike
Indeed we do no File Backup on the Domain Controllers - for there are none … (I thought)
I will give it a try and see what happens.
thx
+4Configured a File Backup including System State - and repadmin shows the actual backup time now.
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