I’d also suggest using virtual labs to test this in an isolated network prior to carrying out in production, so you can be confident you’ve hit any & all snags prior to doing it “for real”, and as you can do this with the same backups you’ll actually want to recover from (as you said you could be going back a few weeks), so it will be an identical process. Once we’ve got some information here to play with, we can put together a more tailored plan. Thirdly, check your retention policy, make sure the backups you’ll need aren’t going to be deleted due to retention this week, if in doubt you could also export the backups you need for an extra layer of confidence.įinally, are your DCs backed up at the same time or at different times? I’d want to use the latest backup available as my primary and reattach my older DC backups to that. Secondly, what OS are your domain controllers? Windows Server 2012 R2 added some virtualisation safeguards for AD to help if you restored a DC out of sequence. This could impact how you want to recover. AD: What DNS configuration are you using here? Are all the domain controllers aiming at themselves (relying on DNS replication) within their DNS client/network config, are they all pointing to a central DNS server, or are they all aiming at each other.Veeam: Veeam needs to be able to talk to its components, is your Veeam server an “all in one” box? If not, are your components/servers being targeted via FQDN or DNS? If FQDN I would just edit the hosts file to ensure this continues to work.We can just target an ESXi host via IP address within Veeam vSphere: Does vCenter manage the ESXi hosts via FQDN entries or IP addresses? If it’s via FQDN, you’ll be best avoiding using vCenter within Veeam for your recovery as you’d have to mess with your VCSA to avoid the DNS issues.We need to consider the impact from a few perspectives:
Lets go over a few basic parts to this and build a strategy for you:įirstly, you’ve quite rightly highlighted your DNS will be impacted.
#I am the master of my domain software
Veeam would be terrible backup software if you couldn’t recover your AD environment, so the answer is a definite YES!
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