How to backup ADAM/ADLDS database manually (4350846)

If the ADAM/ADLDS server with your project becomes corrupt in the middle of migration with Quest Migration Manager all migration projects will come to a halt.  This article describes how you can prevent the migration failure if it happens.

There are two ways of backing up ADAM database:

1. Back up a QMM ADAM Instance.
You can back up an instance of ADAM using the Windows interface, the command line, or using a script or program.

For more information please seeTechNet article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc780870(WS.10).aspx for Server 2003

or https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730941(v=ws.10).aspx for Server 2008/2012

2. Replicate the project to a different ADAM instance.  Then you simply fail over to that other replica in case of issues with the original ADAM server.  Creating a new ADAM instance is easy with the ADAM install wizard (adamsetup.exe).  The wizard is explained in detail in the ADAM Reviewers Guide, you can download it from:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5163b97a-7df3-4b41-954e-0f7c04893e83&DisplayLang=en&displaylang=en