Backup and Recovery

If you have deployed file and application servers in your network environment, your users now depend on them to function properly in order to do their jobs, from network authentications to file access to print and web services. Therefore, the importance of backing up the network servers should be evident.

It is important to have multiple servers available to provide backup in case of a problem. The same goes for Active Directory itself—it too should be backed up by being saved. This way, if there is a massive disaster after which you need to restore your directory services, you will have that option available to you.

The process of reformatting a computer from scratch after a catastrophic system failure is known as a bare ...

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