Recovery Manager for AD Disaster Recovery Edition 10.2.2 - User Guide

Computer Restart in Normal Mode

Use this page to specify how to restart the target computer in normal mode. Restarting the target domain controller in normal mode is required for the Active Directory® restore to complete.

• Let me restart computer later. With this option, you must restart the target computer manually.

• Restart the computer now. Restarts the target computer remotely, using the boot option specified in the Boot option box. If you want to apply different startup parameters, restart the computer manually.

Completing the Repair Wizard

Use this page to view the operation results.

• View Log. Shows the restore results log. The purpose of the log is to facilitate troubleshooting.

• Finish. Click Finish to close the Repair Wizard.

To open the log file

• On the Completing the Repair Wizard page, click View Log. The log includes the following entries:

  • Operation. Type of the restore operation.

  • Backup. The path and name of the backup file.

  • Created. Date and time of the backup creation.

  • Operation Started. Date and time when the wizard started the restore.

  • DIT Database restore started. Under this entry you can view a list of files the wizard has restored.

  • Operation completed. Date and time when the wizard completed the restore.

The wizard saves the log file in the following folder: %AllUsersProfile%\Quest\Recovery Manager for Active Directory\Repair.

Extract Wizard

The Extract Wizard helps you restore data from a backup to a specified folder. With this wizard, you can select the Active Directory® components you want to extract from the computer’s backup and specify the destination folder for the extracted files.

The wizard has the following steps:

• Backup Selection

• Folder Selection

• Operation Start

• Operation Progress

• Completing the Extract Wizard

Backup Selection

Use this page to view a list of computers for which backups are available and to select a backup and Active Directory® components in the backup.

• Locate the backup under computer name. Provides a list of computers for which backups are available and allows you to select a backup to perform a restore. For the selected computer, the window lists all backups that are available in RMAD. A backup entry includes the date and time when the backup was created, and displays the backup age in days. By selecting check boxes under a backup entry, you can extract individual components of the Active Directory®. The list only includes the backups that are registered in the RMAD configuration database.

• Register. To register additional backups, click Register, and then click one from the following items:

  • Register Backup File. Registers a Microsoft Tape Format (MTF)-compliant backup file (.bkf) or BMR backup (.vhd, .vhdx).

  • Register Backups in Folder. Registers all backup files that are in the selected folder.

    In the Extract Wizard, you can use backups created by applications that store backups in Microsoft Tape Format (MTF), such as Windows Backup or Veritas™ Backup Exec™.

To select a backup

• Click the computer whose backup you want to use, double-click the backup you want to use, and select check boxes next to component names.