We use Veeam for backup of both Exchange and Active Director. It is application aware and does truncate the logs. You may need to rebuild your domain replication database but you do not need the state backup as long as you have 2 domain controllers.
I have successfully restored the entire domain from Veeam backups, and it was not very difficult. Hope this helps with a real world example. -Robb From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 9:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Veeam? I’d take that article series with a grain (or ten) of salt. Much of the advice is inaccurate. Thanks, Brian Desmond (w) 312.625.1438 | (c) 312.731.3132 From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David L Herrick Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 10:14 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Veeam? http://www.veeam.com/blog/active-directory-domain-controller-backup-recovery.html From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David McSpadden Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 6:36 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Veeam? Not sure about the AD but we use it on our Exchange 2010 servers and it has been used to restore on a couple of occasions. Our Tlogs are truncated nightly after the VEEAM backups run. There is an application aware selection in the paid for product that will truncate Exchange and SQL. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles F Sullivan Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 9:31 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Veeam? I’ve only used the free product a bit, but there are a couple of things that I noticed that would concern me, and this may be the same for any VM-level backup solution. For domain controllers you really need a System State backup to recover from. Using VEEAM that doesn’t seem to be an option. For Exchange Servers it doesn’t seem to be application aware, so the t-logs aren’t truncated. Both of these apparent drawbacks could apply to other apps besides AD and Exchange, of course. I’m bringing this up as more of a question than a critique because I’ve wondered if I’m correct about this. And possibly my experiences were because I’m using the free version. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Mark Liechty Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 11:38 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Veeam? Best solution ever. recovery and availability and replication and testing so much in front of everyone else there is no contest. On Nov 10, 2015, at 8:18 PM, Ryan Finnesey <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: What is the groups thoughts on the Veeam line of products for backup of VMs? Cheers Ryan This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are property of Indiana Members Credit Union, are confidential, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom this e-mail is addressed. If you are not one of the named recipient(s) or otherwise have reason to believe that you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete this message immediately from your computer. Any other use, retention, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. Please consider the environment before printing this email. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited.
