Try Arcserve 2000 --- You can set up operations to be preformed before and
after the backup as part of the backup process.
===== Original Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at 8/02/01 1:31 pm
>Hi Kevin,
>
>Thanks for the reply. I can understand your confusion since I am fully
>aware that AD and SQL Server are wholly different. The root problem here is
>that we have an online application that makes AD and SQL changes while it
>runs. (screwy right?) but that doesn't change the fact that we have it.
>This means that for any meaningful backup to be of any value, I have to stop
>the application and backup AD and the SQL database at the same time. If I
>don't, then AD and the database will be out of synch causing any number of
>really bad problems.
>
>That said, can you recommend a good backup product that will accomplish the
>foregoing?
>
>Frank
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Flanagan, Kevin
>Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 11:49 AM
>To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory and SQL Server
>
>
>What? Active Directory and SQL server really don't have anything to do with
>each other.
>
>For SQL use DTS perhaps to replicate data to another server.
>
>For AD, it replicates to all of your DCs anyways.
>
>Doing a backup is another matter entirely, for both of these things, get a
>good backup product that has a SQL agent, and is "AD aware" so it can backup
>the AD. The AD is really just a very modified Access Database, just jet.
>
>
>Kevin
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Frank Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 2:45 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [ActiveDir] Active Directory and SQL Server
>
>
>Hi, We have a situation here that requires us to synchronize Active
>Directory and SQL Server by somehow backing both up at a specified point in
>time and replicating them to another server. We are trying a product called
>ERDisk but we don't think it is going to do the job. I have been asked to
>research another solution.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Frank Oliver
>
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