Dear All Server Expert,
We are currently having on premise AD server running Server 2008 R2. there is another AD Server2 for the redundancy being built. Both of the AD server are actually a VM residing on two different physical hypervisor servers. May I know: what is the best backup strategy applied for AD so when one of the AD is down sue to software or hardware corruption, I will be able to restore it asap from the backup.
From my understanding, I will definitely need to backup both the Hyper V server and also the VM. FYI, I am using the backup exec 2010 R3 for my backup software. From the backup exec and by selecting the Hyper V server to be backup, I can see a list to be backup below:
AD is actually part of Microsoft Hyper-V as it is the VM. I have 2 situations that concern:
1. What about when only that AD VM is fail? will it be enough if I am restoring the full image backup from the Microsoft Hyper-V? After restoring then wait till another DC to replicate over. But what will happen if this AD has all the roles?
2. What about when the physical server itself fail? if those selections above being selected, will it be enough to restore?
Thanks.
Regards,