Recovery Manager for AD Disaster Recovery Edition 10.3.1 - User Guide

Advanced Logging

• Diagnostic logging - Specify the logging setting for the Recovery Manager and Backup Agents for all domain controllers in the collection.

  The following options are available:

  • Global settings - Use the default logging settings from the Recovery Manager Console root node: Recovery Manager for Active Directory->Settings…>Logging.

  • Enable - If you select this option, extended logging will be enabled for all domain controllers within the collection during the backup operation.

  • Disable - If you select this option, the log will contain only Warnings and Error messages.

  The log files will be created in the %ProgramData%\Quest\Recovery Manager for Active Directory\Logs folder:

  • Agent side (domain controller): ErdAgent.log

  • Recovery Console: ErdServer.log

• Creating a new set of log files - Specify the creation of new logs for Recovery Manager and Backup Agents for all controllers in the collection.

  Edit the following:

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Quest\Recovery Manager for Active Directory\Diagnostics

  Modify or create REG_SZ registry value called LogRotationInterval

  The following options are available:

  • Never - Never create new logs

  • Daily - Create new logs daily.

  • Weekly - Create new logs weekly.

  • Monthly - Create new logs monthly.

Advanced Integrity Check

By default Run an integrity check after creating a backup is enabled on new computer collections, with Check the Integrity of previously created backups after a scheduled backup is disabled.

Disabling Run an integrity check after creating a backup disables the Integrity check performed on manual backups.

Scheduled Computer Collections with Run an integrity check after creating a backup enabled and Check the Integrity of previously created backups after a scheduled backup disabled, will perform integrity checks only on new backups but not on previous backups.

Scheduled Computer Collections with Check the Integrity of previously created backups after a scheduled backup enabled, and Run an integrity check after creating a backup disabled, then only previous backups will have an integrity checked performed, based on the last backup session(s) as defined by the user (default 1).

Registry settings

For Backups manually registered in the RMAD, or Forest Recovery console, the integrity check after backup registration is controlled by the following registry settings on the RMAD console machine:

\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Quest\Recovery Manager for Active Directory\Options

DWORD Value: 1 enabled or 0 disabled
IntegrityCheckOnBkfRegistration (enabled by default)
IntegrityCheckOnBmrRegistration (disabled by default)

FR console register backup

In Forest Recovery, when backups are imported, an integrity check is performed.

Results of integrity check on import of backup in Forest Recovery.

RMAD Console register backup

In this example we will register a backup for Active Directory. To register a backup in the RMAD console select Backups | Active Directory then right click and select Register Backup. There are three options, Register Backup File…, Register Backups in Folder…, and Register Offline Active Directory Database… for you to choose. Select the Register Backup File… to open the browser.

In the browser window browse to the location of the backup files and select the files to import.

The selected backup file will automatically have an integrity check performed on import.

Default Computer collection advanced settings

The default for Run an integrity check after creating a backup enabled is enabled and Check the Integrity of previously created backups after a scheduled backup is disabled.

With both options enabled, Integrity check is done for all backups including backups from previous sessions.

After an Integrity check is performed the timestamp for Last Integrity Check column is updated and found in the Console for each backup, including backups on Secure Storage.

Disabling Run an integrity check after creating a backup disables the Integrity check performed for manual backups, including backups sent to Secure Storage.

Check the Integrity of previously created backups after a scheduled backup

Scheduled Computer Collections with Check the Integrity of previously created backups after a scheduled backup runs and Integrity check on schedule for backups on Local, Remote and Secure Storage locations.

Scheduled Computer Collections with Run an integrity check after creating a backup enabled, and Check the Integrity of previously created backups after a scheduled backup disabled, will have new backups created with their integrity checked

With Run an integrity check after creating a backup disabled and Check the Integrity of previously created backups after a scheduled backup is enabled, integrity is not checked for backups created within the current session. However backups created from a previous backup session(s) will have their Integrity checked.

Example shows backups from the most recent session created without integrity checked.

The backups from time 6:11:15 are checked on the next session. Since Run an integrity check after creating a backup is disabled, Newer backups are also then checked during the following backup session

Unpacked Backups tab

This tab allows you to override the global (or default) settings used to automatically unpack backups for all Computer Collections.

On this tab, you can use the following elements:

• Use global settings - Specifies to use the global settings to automatically unpack each backup upon its creation.

• Unpack each backup upon its creation - Allows you to configure settings specific to the Computer Collection to automatically unpack each backup upon its creation. Other backups created for the Computer Collection will be automatically deleted.

  • Keep unpacked backups only from the last: - Specify the number of recent backup creation sessions to keep unpacked backups for each domain in the Computer Collection. The choices are from All sessions or number of session (in steps) from 1 through 100. Default is 3 sessions.

  • Select domain controllers: - Click the Select button and in the Select computers dialog, select the domain controllers to unpack.

• Do not unpack backups - Specifies not to unpack backups created for the Computer Collection.

For more information on managing unpacked backups, see Unpacking backups.

Container and site properties

For a container such as an Active Directory domain, organizational unit, or site added to a Computer Collection, the properties are used to specify an explicit list of the domain controllers or AD LDS (ADAM) instances for which backups are not to be created.

To view and modify properties for a container or site

1. In the Recovery Manager Console tree, select the Computer Collection that holds the container or site.

2. In the details pane, click the container or site, and then click Properties on the Action menu.

The next subsections provide descriptions for the following:

• Properties for a domain or organizational unit

• Properties for an Active Directory site

• Properties for an AD LDS (ADAM) site