Recovery Manager for AD Disaster Recovery Edition 10.3 - User Guide

Scalability and performance

Recovery Manager for Active Directory offers scalability and support for large, multi-domain environments. It provides excellent performance, creates backups for multiple computers in parallel, and is easily scalable to service additional domain controllers. Depending on their roles, locations, or other criteria established by an administrator, serviced domain controllers can be logically grouped into easy-to-manage Computer Collections.

Recovery Manager for Active Directory employs agents when creating or applying backups. In this way, scalability is improved and overhead network traffic is decreased because agents compress the data before sending it over network links, and create backups for multiple domain controllers in parallel.

Simplified restoration of an Active Directory forest

With the Forest Recovery Console, you can remotely manage the recovery of domain controllers in your forest from one central location.

Bare metal forest recovery

Recovery Manager for Active Directory automates recovery of an Active Directory® forest from a Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) backup along with Active Directory® backup in case of physical corruption of all domain controllers, domain data or services, e.g. machine was attacked by ransomware, cannot start etc.

This feature is supported only for Windows Server® 2008 R2 or higher domain controllers.

Granular domain-level recovery

Recovery Manager for Active Directory makes it possible to selectively recover domains in an Active Directory® forest. Instead of restoring the entire forest, you can run the restore operation on one or more domains the forest includes. This method is useful if you have located the domains that include dangerous or unwanted data and want to selectively recover them. Before you proceed with the selective recovery of domains, it is highly recommended you make absolutely sure the dangerous or unwanted data is not replicated to other domains in the forest.

To selectively recover domains, you can either create a new recovery project that will only include the domains you want to recover, or open an existing project for the entire forest, and then select the domains you want to recover in that project.