Recovery Manager for AD Disaster Recovery Edition 10.2.1 - User Guide

Configuring backup retention policy for Secure Storage server

If you create backups on a daily basis as recommended, you should configure a backup retention policy to maintain the backups created. It is recommended to maintain at least 2 weeks (14 days) of backups including backups on your Secure Storage server. This approach will provide you with a sufficient number of backups to recover from an Active Directory failure that remained undetected for some time.

To configure backup retention policy directly on the Secure Storage server

1. During the installation of the Secure Storage agent on the Secure Storage server, a PowerShell module was installed and is located in the agent installation folder.
2. On the Secure Storage server, run Windows PowerShell. The module will automatically be imported.
3. To configure backup retention policy, run the cmdlet Set-RMADStorageServerRetentionPolicy. For further details on Set-RMADStorageServerRetentionPolicy see the Management Shell Guide supplied with this release of the product.

To get the current backup retention policy on the Secure Storage server

1. During the installation of the Secure Storage agent on the Secure Storage server, a PowerShell module was installed and is located in the agent installation folder.
2. On the Secure Storage server, run the PowerShell console. The module will automatically be imported.
3. To configure backup retention policy, run the cmdlet Get-RMADStorageServerRetentionPolicy. For further details on Get-RMADStorageServerRetentionPolicy see the Management Shell Guide supplied with this release of the product..

Managing Recovery Manager for Active Directory configuration

In this section:

• Preparing for working with Active Directory or AD LDS (ADAM) backups

• Settings

• Default properties for Computer Collections

• Properties for an existing Computer Collection

• Container and site properties

• Sessions node properties

• Forest properties

• Domain properties

• Domain controller properties

• AD LDS (ADAM) partition properties

• AD LDS (ADAM) instance properties

• Showing or hiding AD LDS (ADAM) partitions

• Showing or hiding domains

• Showing or hiding sites

Preparing for working with Active Directory or AD LDS (ADAM) backups

To restore data from Active Directory or AD LDS (ADAM) backups, Recovery Manager for Active Directory (RMAD) requires specific dynamic link libraries (DLLs) supplied with the Windows operating system. In case RMAD cannot find these DLLs, the backup restore operation may fail with an error message similar to the following:

“The Active Directory database (ntds.dit) file in the backup is incompatible with the esent.dll file version found on this computer.”

Before you start using RMAD to extract and restore data from Active Directory or AD LDS (ADAM) backups, it is recommended to ensure the required DLLs are available on the RMAD computer.

How to ensure that required DLLs are available

Requirements

Operating system on the Recovery Manager for Active Directory computer

Settings

To configure the various settings of Recovery Manager for Active Directory, you can use the Settings dialog box. In the Settings dialog box, you can define a TCP port for communications with the Backup Agent, Online Restore Agent, Offline Restore Agent and Management Agent, specify the default location for storing Active Directory backups, select a default method for compare and restore operations, configure settings for creating unpacked backups, or set up e-mail notifications or diagnostic logging.

To open the Settings dialog box

• In the Recovery Manager Console, select the Recovery Manager for Active Directory console tree root.

• On the Action menu, click Settings.

The Settings dialog box has the following tabs:

• General tab

• Unpacked Backups tab (global settings)

• E-mail tab

• Logging tab

• Ports tab