How to perform a complete offline restore of a corrupted AD LDS (ADAM) instance (56620)

This article considers a recovery scenario where you can use an AD LDS (ADAM) backup registered with Recovery Manager or Recovery Manager Forest Edition to perform a complete offline restore of a corrupted AD LDS (ADAM) instance.

The offline restore method described in this article is useful in a situation where you cannot connect to the corrupted AD LDS (ADAM) instance with the Recovery Manager console to restore the AD LDS (ADAM) instance online.

Before you proceed, make sure that the backup from which you want to restore the AD LDS (ADAM) database is registered with Recovery Manager.

To restore a corrupted AD LDS (ADAM) instance:

1. Make sure the service for the AD LDS (ADAM) instance you are restoring to is stopped
2. Open the RMAD console
3. Expand Backups | AD LDS (ADAM)
4. Right click the AD LDS backup  you want to use and select Extract
5. Click Next
6. Check the root of the backup and click Next
7. Select the path where to store the extracted backup files and click Next
   Note: If there any files in the path specified they will be deleted
8. Click Next and then Finish
9. Browse the folder the folder where the backup was extacted and locate the adamntds.dit and other files
   Note: There may multiple copies of these files in different folders depending on how your AD LDS instance was configured
10. Copy the files to the AD LDS (ADAM) host to replace the existing files
11. Start the AD LDS (ADAM) service on the host.