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From: raz4183 on 14 Apr 2010 17:48
We are a small company with only 2 domain controllers both using Windows 2003
Server Standard. Currently we back them with a full backup on Fridays and
incremental backups Mon - Thurs. Since we use Active Directory should we be
running a full backup every night? If so what folders/files should be backed
up each night or do we just backup the entire C drive?
From: Meinolf Weber [MVP-DS] on 15 Apr 2010 01:23
Hello raz4183,

The minimum backup you need to restore AD is the system state of a DC.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc778772(WS.10).aspx

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216993

The schedule depends on your amount of changes doing in AD. After each major
change, new schema or new AD aware applications like exchange make allways
a ful backup.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> We are a small company with only 2 domain controllers both using
> Windows 2003 Server Standard. Currently we back them with a full
> backup on Fridays and incremental backups Mon - Thurs. Since we use
> Active Directory should we be running a full backup every night? If so
> what folders/files should be backed up each night or do we just backup
> the entire C drive?
>


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