Recovery Manager for AD 10.2.1 - User Guide

Step 2: Configure Recovery Manager for Active Directory

In this step, you need to configure the RMAD instances for working with the Recovery Manager Portal.

To configure a Recovery Manager for Active Directory instance

1. In each Active Directory domain, choose one domain controller whose backups the Recovery Manager Portal will use for recovery operations.

2. In the appropriate instance of RMAD, create a separate Computer Collection for each domain controller you have chosen.

3. Add the domain controllers to their individual Computer Collections.

4. Configure backup settings for these Computer Collections:

   • Specify to unpack backups. For instructions, see Configuring Computer Collection-specific settings to unpack backups.

     This is required because the Recovery Manager Portal can only restore data from unpacked backups.

   • Configure a retention policy for the unpacked backups. For instructions, see Unpacked Backups tab in Properties for an existing Computer Collection.

     The number of retained unpacked backups determines the number of available backup states to which you can restore Active Directory objects in the Recovery Manager Portal.

Step 3: Add Recovery Manager for Active Directory instances

In the Recovery Manager Portal, add the RMAD instances you have configured in the previous step. By adding the instances, you make the unpacked backups they create available in the Recovery Manager Portal.

To add a Recovery Manager for Active Directory instance

1. Connect to the Recovery Manager Portal with your Web browser.

   Use the user account under which you installed the Recovery Manager Portal. By default, this account has all necessary permissions to modify the portal configuration.

2. In the Recovery Manager Portal, open the Configuration tab.

3. Expand Recovery Manager for Active Directory Instances.

4. Click the Add instance button.

5. Use the following options in the dialog box that opens:

   • Computer. Type the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the computer that hosts the RMAD instance.

   • Access the computer using. Type the user name and password of the account with which you want to access the specified computer. The account must be a local administrator on the target computer.

6. When finished, click OK.

Step 4: Configure recovery settings for Active Directory domains

To configure recovery settings

1. In the Recovery Manager Portal, open the Configuration tab.

2. Expand Active Directory Domains.

3. Click a domain, and then do the following in the dialog box that opens:

• Recovery Manager for Active Directory. Select the instance you have configured to back up a domain controller in the selected domain.

• Backups of selected DC. Select the domain controller you have added to the Computer Collection in Step 2: Configure Recovery Manager for Active Directory.

• Access the domain using. Specify the account under which you want the selected RMAD instance to recover data in the domain.

4. When finished, click OK.

Modifying recovery settings for domains

For each Active Directory domain available in the Recovery Manager Portal, you can specify the domaincontroller whose unpacked backups you want to use for recovering data in the Recovery Manager Portal, and the RMAD instance you want to use for data recovery operations.

To configure recovery settings

1. Connect to the Recovery Manager Portal with your Web browser.

2. In the Recovery Manager Portal, open the Configuration tab.

3. Expand Active Directory Domains.

4. Click the domain for which you want to configure the recovery settings.

5. In the dialog box that opens, use the following options:

• Recovery Manager for Active Directory. Select the RMAD instance you want to use to recover data in the domain.

• Backups of selected DC. Select the domain controller whose backups you want to use to recover data in the entire domain.

• User name and password. Type the credentials of the user account under which you want to restore data in the domain.

• Grant restore rights to all domain admins. Select this check box if you want to delegate the rights to restore or undelete data to all accounts in the Domain Admins group. For more information about delegation, see Delegating restore or undelete permissions.