Performing Recovery
Once verification of a Recovery Plan is completed successfully, you can proceed with the recovery of your Active Directory forest or selected domains. For more information about verification, see Verifying Recovery Plans.
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NOTES:
- It is highly recommended that you visit the Recovery Considerations and Best Practices section in the Before You Start chapter before you recover the forest or selected domains.
- Ensure that the Recovery Plan you intend to use for recovery was created based on the latest forest topology.
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To begin recovery
- From the Recovery page, open the Recovery Plan you want to use for recovery.
- Select Start Recovery. Select the corresponding checkboxes to confirm that the hybrid machine is configured with a DNS server, and that you want to begin recovery immediately. Then select Start Recovery.
All domain controllers in the Recovery Plan that are set to be recovered will be recovered. To view the current status of the recovery of each domain controller, select View Progress in the toolbar, then navigate to the Status column. For more information, see Recovery Plan Progress.
Recovery Plan Progress
You can monitor the progress of verification and recovery tasks running for a Recovery Plan using the progress view. Progress information is displayed when a verification and recovery task is in progress or has recently been completed.
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NOTE: If you edit any details in the Recovery Plan configuration (on the General, Domains, or Domain Controllers tab), the verification or recovery progress will no longer be available until a new task is started. |
To access the progress view of a Recovery Plan
- From the Recovery page, navigate to the tile for the Recovery Plan and select View Progress.
- On the Configuration page for the Recovery Plan, select View Progress in the toolbar.
For each domain controller in the Recovery Plan, the following information related to task progress is displayed in the table:
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NOTE: This topic only documents fields and other elements on this page that either are not self-explanatory or require additional information. |
- Status – The status of the ongoing or completed task on the domain controller. The possible status entries include the following:
- Verification
- Starting DC Verification – The verification operation is in the process of starting.
- DC Verification in Progress – The verification operation is in progress.
- DC Verification Completed – The verification operation has been completed.
- Verification Completed with Warnings – The verification operation has been completed, but one or more operations have warnings. For more information, see Domain Controller Operations.
- DC Verification Failed – The verification operation has failed.
- DC Verification Canceling – The verification operation is in the process of being canceled.
- DC Verification Canceled – The verification process has been canceled.
- Recovery
- Starting DC Recovery – The recovery operation is in the process of starting.
- DC Recovery in Progress – The recovery operation is in progress.
- DC Recovery Completed – The recovery operation has been completed.
- DC Recovery Completed with Warnings – The recovery operation has been completed, but one or more operations have warnings. For more information, see Domain Controller Operations.
- DC Recovery Failed – The recovery operation has failed.
- DC Recovery Canceling – The recovery operation is in the process of being canceled.
- DC Recovery Canceled – The recovery process has been canceled.
- Waiting For Other DCs – The operation is waiting for other domain controllers to finish their operations.
By clicking the status entry in the Status column, you can open the domain controller Operations page. This page lists all operations performed on the domain controller during verification or recovery, including any configuration errors or warnings. For more information, see Domain Controller Operations.
- Current Operation – The operation currently running or last run. If there are configuration errors or warnings, the operation during which the error occurred is displayed in this column.
Domain Controller Operations
By selecting the entry in the Status column of a domain controller in progress view, you can open the domain controller Operations page. This can only be accessed during or after verification or recovery.
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The Operations page details the operations performed on a domain controller when verifying a Recovery Plan or performing recovery.
Above the toolbar, you can see the progress of both the domain controller and the Recovery Plan.
- On the left side of the status bar, you can view the status of the domain controller, including the:
- Progress of the verification or recovery
- Number of errors and warnings
- Number of canceled, completed, and pending operations
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NOTE: Icons are displayed only for statuses that include one or more operations in that category. |
- On the right side of the status bar, you can view the status of the Recovery Plan, including the:
- Overall summary of the Recovery Plan
- Overall time taken for the verification or recovery
You can view the following information for the domain controller on the Operations page:
- Operations – Selecting the link of an operation entry opens a flyout with a description of the operation, including details about any warnings or errors.
- Elapsed Time – The total duration the operation took to run.
- Completion Date – The date and time when the operation finished.
You can perform the following actions on the Operations page:
- Skip and Continue – Allows you to skip the current failed recovery step for the domain controller you selected and continue with the recovery of the domain controller. This action is recommended only if you have manually completed the failed recovery step on the domain controller.
- Retry Last – Allows you to rerun the failed recovery step on the domain controller you selected. This action is recommended when you manually fixed the issue that had caused the recovery step to fail.
- Cancel – Cancels the recovery or verification operation for the selected domain controller.
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- View Events – Opens the list of events for the domain controller for the latest or currently running task of the Recovery Plan.
Events Management
The Events page displays events that occurred while performing tasks such as backups, verification, and recovery.
You can perform the following actions on this page:
- Use the Filters button to filter events by severity or the date the event was created.
- To filter by severity, select the relevant checkboxes to filter by one or more of the following severities: Information, Warning, or Error.
- To filter by the date the event was created, select the desired date and time range and then select Apply.
- Use the Refresh button to display the most up to date events.
- Use the Export button to export the events data into a .csv format.
- Use the Edit Columns button to include or exclude one or more columns.
- Change the forest by using the dropdown menu on the top right side of the page.
