Application Partition / Naming Context Backup

Are Application Partitions stored in Active Directory? Are they backed up with the system state? Can they be restored with the system state?

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leefdaddy

Yes to all I believe...

Devilsbane

DragonNOA1 wrote: »

Are Application Partitions stored in Active Directory? Are they backed up with the system state? Can they be restored with the system state?

Yep. Systemstate on an DC backs up AD. Something very important to do because then you can use that to restore a user account that was deleted by mistake or something like that.

DragonNOA1

Devilsbane wrote: »

...restore a user account...

ADP cannot contain security principals.

Application directory partitions: Active Directory

leefdaddy wrote: »

Yes to all I believe...

Finally found an article. Looks like the system state is where it's at.

Performing an Authoritative Restore of an Application Directory Partition:

Devilsbane

I was referring to the importance of backing up AD for the Domain partition which does store the user accounts. I misread your post, sorry.

Devilsbane

How To Use the Backup Program to Back Up and Restore the System State in Windows 2000

This lists Active Directory (NTDS) as one of the things that is backed up. It doesn't specify that only part of the file is backed up, so it must all be in there.