I see. So no backup software will state that they will perform an authorative restore because it's up to us, after performing the restore, to execute the NTDSUTIL utility and do it Microsoft's way - the supported way.
Thanks Bill! Have a great weekend. -----Original Message----- From: Bill Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 5:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Windows 2000 Domain Controller Authoritative Restore? The difference between a non-authorative restore and an authorative restore is that after restoring the System Object you run the NTDSUTIL utility to make the entire AD, or only a part of the tree authoritative. All this does in increase the replication ID for those objects by 10,000. When the server is then rebooted the objects with the higher ID will be replicated to the domain. ALL restores of AD are non-authorative. You make it authoritative by running the NTDSUTIL command supplied by Microsoft. Bill boyer DSS, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jon Adams Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 6:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Windows 2000 Domain Controller Authoritative Restore? >From what I can tell, Tivoli says that we can do non-authoritative domain controller restores only. However, while they may not support it, what does anyone actually know about doing it? I don't want to look at another product just to backup my domain controllers while TSM works for everything else. Thanks! Regards, _______________________________________________ Jon R. Adams Systems Engineer Infrastructure Technical Support, OSS Premera Blue Cross <http://www.premera.com> Work: 425-918-5770 / mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pager: 425-886-6155 / mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are only 10 kinds of people in this world - those that know binary and those that do not." -author unknown _______________________________________________ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.