NTBackup "System State" & A Default "Exclude" Of NTDS\*
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 10:39 pm
Windows Server 2003 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Schwa Asmism
(1 messages posted)
Hi,
I am getting ready to "adprep" an ailing 2003 R1(?) DC because it is holding back
my 2003 R2 from promoting to an DC.
Anyway, I went to experiment with NTBackup -- hoping to backup the "System State"
-- and find that the "Exclude Files" has defaulted to excluding "C:\WINNT\NTDS\*"
and "D:\WINNT\NTDS\*"...
Anyone know why this is so? It would seem to be excluding the very thing it needs
to be including to get a backup of the AD; and, looking at the detailed log produced
by NTBackup, it show no sign of having backed-up NTDS.dit... Isn't that the very
file that houses the AD db? This is annoying.
What's more annoying is I even took the exclusions out and it still seemed to
exclude NTDS.dit...
Help?
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