Backup - Active Directory

Plan your backup jobs for this agent by reviewing the following information:

For an overview of backup jobs, see Backup Data.
For a list of supported data types for this agent, see Supported Data Types.
For information on subclients, see Subclients
- For information on configuring subclients for this agent, see Subclients - Active Directory.

Supported Backup Types

This agent supports the following backup types:

Before performing any backup procedures for this agent, review the following information:

You must run adldaptool.exe on the client before your first backup to enable restores of passwords for Users and Computers. If you do not run this utility before your first backup, you will not be able to restore the passwords.
For step-by-step instructions, see Run the adldaptool.exe Utility.

The adldaptool sets the value 0x00000008 to the searchFlags attributes of "Unicode-Pwd" and "SID-History" found under CN=Schema and Cn=Configuration. This tells Active Directory to preserve, on deletion, these two attributes.