Summary
This chapter covered the essential topic of disaster recovery in Windows Server 2003 Active Directory. Disaster recovery is one of the network administration tasks that you hope you will never need to use. However, as any experienced administrator knows, you will almost certainly need to use the disaster recovery procedures at some time. This chapter began by discussing the basic data elements in Active Directory. It then discussed the practices for backing up Active Directory. The majority of this chapter explained the procedures for restoring Active Directory in both authoritative and nonauthoritative modes. One of the issues that must be dealt with in a disaster recovery scenario is the management of the operations master roles and ...
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