Recovery Manager for AD 10.3 - User Guide

Revoking licenses

When the actual number of user accounts exceeds the licensed number, Recovery Manager for Active Directory (RMAD) returns a warning message each time you back up data. In this case, you can revoke licenses from the domains whose backups you no longer need. The revoked licenses are returned to the pool of available licenses and you can allocate them to a different domain.

To revoke licenses from a domain

1. In the console tree, right-click the root node, and then click About.

2. In the About dialog box, click the License tab.

3. On the License tab, select the domain from the License Usage list, and then click Revoke.

4. In the confirmation message box, click Yes.

Backing up data

• Permissions required for the Backup operation

• Managing Backup Agent

• Using a least-privileged user account to back up data

• Using Managed Service Accounts

• Active Directory backups vs Windows System State backups

• Creating BMR and Active Directory backups

• Retrying backup creation

• Enabling backup encryption

• Backing up AD LDS (ADAM)

• Backing up cross-domain group membership

• Backing up distributed file system (DFS) data

• Backup scheduling

• Setting performance options

• Setting advanced backup options

• Unpacking backups

• Using e-mail notification

• Viewing backup creation results

Permissions required for the Backup operation

The table below lists the minimum user account permissions required to perform the Backup operation.

Minimum permissions required for the Backup operation

Backing up the AD data using the preinstalled Backup Agent

Membership in the RMAD Backup Operators group.

-OR-

Builtin\Backup Operators domain local group.

Create the RMAD Backup Operators group before the Backup Agent installation. For more details, refer to Using a least-privileged user account to back up data.

If the Ensure Forest Recovery Agent is deployed check box is selected on the Agent Settings tab of the backup collection Properties, the account must be added to the Builtin\Administrators domain local group.

Backing up the AD data using the automatically installed Backup Agent

Membership in the Builtin\Administrators domain local group.

This operation is always performed under the Recovery Manager Console account.

Installing the Backup Agent

Membership in the Builtin\Administrators domain local group.

-OR-

Domain Admins group.

Managing Backup Agent

Recovery Manager for Active Directory (RMAD) employs a Backup Agent to back up data on domain controllers and AD LDS (ADAM) hosts added to Computer Collections. For this reason, the Backup Agent must be installed on each computer where you plan to back up data by using RMAD.

For each Computer Collection, you can specify whether you want to use only preinstalled instances of Backup Agent or want to automatically install Backup Agent when necessary. You can configure RMAD in one of the following ways:

• Use preinstalled Backup Agent only. When configured this way, RMAD will only use the Backup Agent you manually preinstalled on the computers in the Computer Collection.

• Use preinstalled Backup Agent and automatically install the agent when necessary. With this method, RMAD will use preinstalled Backup Agent if it is present on the target computer. If the Backup Agent is missing, RMAD will automatically install it before backing up data on the target computer, and then will automatically remove the automatically installed agent upon the backup operation completion.

You can specify one of these methods in the Computer Collection properties. For more information, see Agent Settings tab subsection in Properties for an existing Computer Collection.

In this section:

• Installing Backup Agent automatically

• Preinstalling Backup Agent manually

• Discovering preinstalled Backup Agent

• Updating Backup Agent information

• Upgrading Backup Agent

• Uninstalling Backup Agent

• Removing a Backup Agent entry from the Backup Agent Management node