The Guest OS Restore wizard allows you to mount the backup of the Active Directory domain controller and extract the Active Directory database files. When you perform file-level restore of guest OS files, the VM image will not be extracted from the backup but the content of a backup file is mounted directly to the corresponding mount server and displayed in the inbuilt Veeam Backup Browser. After that, you can locate the necessary database file and add it to Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Active Directory.
- In the Veeam Backup & Replication console, open the Backup & Replication view, go to the Home tab on the ribbon menu and click Restore.
- In the Restore Wizard, select Guest Files > Guest Files (Windows).
- In the list of available jobs, select the backup or replica of the domain controller from which the Active Directory database should be restored.
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The domain controller VM requires a backup with VSS enabled. For more information, see the "Enable Application-Aware Image Processing and Indexing" section of the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide. |
- Select the restore point for the domain controller VM. The details on this VM (including name, size and original host) will be also displayed. Click Next to proceed.
- Click Finish to start restoring files. Once restore is completed, Veeam Backup & Replication will open a Backup Browser displaying the file system tree of the restored VM.
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Please note that the names of the restored machine drives may differ from the original ones. |
- Browse through the contents of the backup and locate the Active Directory database file (NTDS.DIT). If you prefer opening file tree in Explorer, consider that VM disks are mounted under the C:\veeamflr\<vmname>\<volume n> folder; the NTDS.DIT file is located in the %SystemRoot%\NTDS folder (see the "Datastore Physical Structure" section in this Microsoft Technet article for more information).
- Double-click the file to automatically launch Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Active Directory and add the database to Veeam Explorer's scope, or open the Home tab of the ribbon menu, and select Application Items > Active Directory Items.
If you obtain database backup in the alternative way (for example, from VeeamZIP), then you should add the database manually, as described in Adding Database to Veeam Explorer's Scope.
