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Best practices for Read-Only Domain Controller server backup


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Hi All,

 

Any best practices from Commvault for backing up RODC server?
 

  • Backup as VSA with app-ware option
  • Usual FSA and AD agent level backup
  • No backup

I didn’t find any documentation on this.
So, I am looking for suggestion on the same.

Thanks.

Sudeep

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Best answer by Jos Meijer 7 July 2022, 21:30

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The question is what are you trying to accomplish with a backup with a RODC?

I would backup the DC with the FSMO roles looking from a DR perspective. Saves you a lot of actions to get the AD up and running 🙂

VM backup should be fine, as long as it is backed up in a consistent state.

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Thanks for your response @Jos Meijer.

Customer just had a query on the best practice for RODC backup if any or no backup.
I will update the same to Customer and see if this helps.

 

Thanks.

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We do not backup RODCs as long as that is their only role.  On occasion we will have an RODC which also holds a file server role for a very small location and we just use a file system agent on those but don’t worry about the rest of the system.  We figure if that RODC goes belly up, we can just recover the data to a different server somewhere to give them access until we can rebuild the VM.

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