From the course: Windows Server 2012 R2: Configure and Manage Active Directory
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Configure Active Directory snapshots
From the course: Windows Server 2012 R2: Configure and Manage Active Directory
Configure Active Directory snapshots
- A good backup and recovery system is vital to the integrity of your Active Directory infrastructure. But sometimes, when data is lost, we aren't necessarily sure where and or when to go recover it from. This is where Active Directory snapshots can come in handy. Now to demonstrate how this works, we need to go into one of our domain controllers. So I'm going to select DC-1. Here on DC-1, the utility that we need to use is a commandline tool called Ntdsutil. So I'm going to go down here and open up PowerShell because we typically, in Windows Server 2012, use PowerShell even when working with commandline tools. So we're going to type in Ntdsutil. You'll notice that this takes us to a special Ntdsutil prompt because this is an interactive utility. And once in the utility, the component of this utility we want to enter is snapshot. It kind of makes sense if we're working with Active Directory snapshots. You'll see that this takes us to a snapshot prompt where I'm going to simply hit…
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