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Active Directory support

Updated: 21 May 2010 | 6 comments
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Hello!

I have some troubles with knowledge products: VRTS NETBACKUP CLIENT STANDARD,

VRTS NETBACKUP CLIENT APPLICATION AND DATABASE PACK.

For what is need?

and

Which is support backup in active directory?

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Thank you.

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Jeff Myers's picture
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The Standard Client includes the ability to backup system state, which is what you need to protect for an Active Directory server.  There is no separate agent for Active Directory in NetBackup today.

 

Given that Backup Exec has a separate Active Directory agent that can do granular restores of AD data without a reboot you can probably expect it to appear in NetBackup soon.

 

Jeff

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Jeff, thank you very much!

Message Edited by vigo on 11-17-2008 08:32 PM

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I believe it's currently slated for NBU 6.5.4

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Special AD agent in NBU 6.5.4 ?

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I don't believe it's going to require a special agent, as the data is already there in the Shadow Copy Components now, the intelligence is just being added to mount that copy (you have to back it up to disk, not tape) and restore components back into the live AD from it.

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AD Agent for NBU in 6.5.4

Here is the announcement of the Active Directory Agent in NetBackup 6.5.4 Pre-Availability release.  Notice AD Agent with GRT is the last one.

What are the key new features NetBackup 6.5.4?
The marquee features of NetBackup 6.5.4 include:
· Storage Lifecycle Policy Improvements
· Improved Windows 2008 Master Server Support
· NOM Improvements
· SharePoint Improvements, Including Installation
· Enterprise Vault Agent
· Hyper-V Agent
· Active Directory Agent with Granular Restore

We are going to be testing this in our lab setting along with the GRT for Exchange as well.  It will be nice to be able to restore only the objects in the AD that someone deleted or removed.

Joe

- Joe "Saving the bits each and every day"