Active Directory Offline Mining - How To

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Browse Data from the Offline Directory Database

Restore Data from the Offline Directory Database

Browse Data from the Offline Directory Database

Before You Begin

• Review the Active Directory Offline Mining topic prior to continuing with this procedure.
• In order to browse the offline directory server database, the Active Directory iDataAgent must be installed on the destination computer.

  When installing the Active Directory iDataAgent on the destination computer, the install program will ask if you would like to run the adLdapTool.exe utility. Select No. During installation of the Active Directory iDataAgent, the LDS role is automatically turned on. This role should not be turned off.

Required Capability: None.

To browse and restore data from an offline directory database:

1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the backup set of the Active Directory iDataAgent on the destination computer that contains the directory database you want to restore.
2. Click All Tasks and then click Browse Backup Data.
3. From the Browse Options dialog, select the desired browse options.
   • To locate the directory database to be browsed:
     • Select the Browse/Restore Directory server data from Database (ntds.dit/adamntds.dit) option.
     • Click Browse. The Select dump file dialog box appears.
     • From the Select dump file dialog box, navigate to the appropriate .dit file and then click OK.

       For Active Directory Server databases, the dump file will be the ntds.dit file.

       For ADAM and Lightweight Server databases, the dump file will be the adamntds.dit file.

   Once all the desired browse options are selected, click OK.

4. If you would like to compare objects or attributes from different points-in-time in an effort to determine which should be recovered, you can initiate multiple browse operations by repeating steps 1 through 3 in this procedure, keeping each browse instance open while initiating the additional browse operations.

   When you have located the point-in-time from which you want to restore the object(s) or attribute(s), you can then continue with the Restore Data from the Offline Directory Database procedure.

Restore Data from the Offline Directory Database

Before You Begin

• Review the Active Directory Offline Mining topic prior to continuing with this procedure.
• In order to restore data from the offline directory server database, the Active Directory iDataAgent must be installed on the source computer.

  During installation of the Active Directory iDataAgent, the LDS role is automatically turned on. This role should not be turned off.

Required Capability: None.

To restore data from an offline directory database:

1. Perform a browse operation to locate the desired data using the Browse Data from the Offline Directory Database procedure above.
2. From the Browse window, Select Objects From the Browse Window for Restore and then click Recover All Selected.

   Individually selected attributes across multiple objects cannot be restored simultaneously. To restore attributes from more than one object, you must restore each object in its entirety. You can, however, restore individually selected child objects across multiple parent objects.

3. In the Restore Options dialog box, provide the following information:
   • The Dump File Path, which is the path on the destination computer to which the offline directory database will be restored.
   • The Destination Server, which is the fully qualified domain name of the destination computer to which the offline directory database will be restored.
   • The Destination Server Port, which is the port used by the directory database. For Active Directory server databases, this port number will be 389 by default. For ADAM and Lightweight Directory Servers, this port number will vary depending on the port number configured for the directory database.
   • The User Account, which is the domain controller administrator account. Click Edit to launch the Enter User Account Details dialog box.

     The user account entered must be the domain controller administrator account. Additionally, the user name must be entered in the following format: <domain_name>\<domain_controller_administrator_user_name>

4. After completing your selections, you can either start an immediate restore or schedule the restore.
   • If you want to schedule the job, click the Job Initiation tab from the Restore Options dialog box, click Schedule, schedule the job, and then click OK.
   • If you want to run the job now, accept or click Run Immediately in the same tab and then click OK.

   While the job is running, you can right-click the job in the Job Controller and select Detail to view information on the job. After the data has been restored, you will see a job completion message in the Job Controller and Event Viewer.

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