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Backing up and recovering a CA

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Backing up and recovering a CA

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- [Instructor] So far in this chapter, we've installed and configured two certificate authorities. The second certificate authority is a subordinate authority and it's Active Directory integrated. On top of that, this enterprise CA is almost always online. It has to be if it's going to do it's job. That's different from the first certificate authority that we installed. It's a root authority that has no connections with Active Directory. It's not a member of the domain and nothing about the certificate's said issues are referenced anywhere in Active Directory and this server is often powered down and only brought up every few weeks, months, or years when it needs to issue new signing certificates or publish revocation lists. So after I've made some changes to this server and before I power it down, I'm going to back it up. Like I said in the case of a stand alone server, it could be a long time before this comes back online. I need to know that I can recover the certificates and…

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