How to Recover Domain Controller using Bare Metal Recovery Image

[@guptaramkumar52]

please keep creating such videos, these are very helpful to me really appreciate your efforts. Thank you.

[@imranshaik53]

Hi Can you use network share to do BMR backup and use the same in case of recovery i wanted to see if you can mount Azure blob Storage as Drive and take the BMR Backup and use that backup for recovery? if you can make a video on this that will be great

[@JimmyBComputerGuy]

Excellent. Thanks!

[@abhishekpatil8413]

Can You share the video of BMR recovery on Physical server also.

[@joemason8261]

Physical will be similar, maybe even easier - just have your Windows 2019 'recovery media' and press the right keyboard button at bootup, such as F2 - whichever button gets you to the BIOS; then you can boot directly from your USB or DVD drive, where you have your recovery media. Choose exact same 'Recovery' options in this video, such as "restore from latest image" - be sure you have your 'restore image' on an external USB drive; and, if the external drive has the proper, recognized format, with a folder called "WindowsImageBackup," then the windows restore process will locate that image and ask if you want to restore. Be sure and choose proper "target" disk where you want the OS re-installed; i.e., your new 'blank' C: drive, and the rest will be just as described in the above video.

[@mehmetyildirim7761]

may I use this method to move domain to another server?

[@jigneshkhambhati3772]

Hi i have created bare metal backup through guidelines of your earlier video but while trying to recover through this video steps i am getting error that it unable to find backup image. I have copied windows backup image folder from sharer folder to usb flash drive. Kindly suggest solution

[@kseshagiri1413]

Is this process works for windows 2012 r2?

[@N.raju8247]

Unfortunately in my company we deleted all computers objects but I have imageback-up and I tried this back-not recovery deleted why this was worst back-up tool sir

[@shahscom]

Hi, can we use export function in virtualbox to serve the same purpose? thanks

[@MSFTWebCast]

Yes, you can.

[@shahscom]

@@MSFTWebCast Nice, thanks for your feedback sir

[@duramax0103]

where was the image file store so the wizard could find it? the image disk was attached to vm during setup?

[@MSFTWebCast]

I have stored the image on another disk attached to the VM. The wizard will automatically find the disk (image). If the wizard is unable to find the image, you can use wbadmdin command line utility to specify the location of the image to restore.

[@duramax0103]

@@MSFTWebCast this all thru Virtualbox

[@Mark-kc6yi]

hello. how to disable access to User Account Control (UAC)? so that user cannot change it.

[@gowiththeflow7831]

If i select backup once and do a bare meatal backup on a external USB drive... Can i disconnect that USB drive after the backup is done ?

[@MSFTWebCast]

Yes, you can disconnect the USB. There will be no issue.

[@gowiththeflow7831]

@@MSFTWebCast ok thanks.. but windows backup will format the external USB hdd before taking a backup right...?

[@MSFTWebCast]

@@gowiththeflow7831 Yes.

[@ahmedsaad-lk2og]

okk

[@malavdhimmar]

Boss I have the only AD 2016 in my network.. 2 hdd failed, i have AD back up around 10 GB.. when i am restoring it after restoration 2016 crashes and no error while restoring but after restarting os does not work...please help have 700 users have back up but not able to restore ad..

[@MSFTWebCast]

You sure your backup was healthy? 1. If possible try to restore the DC in Virtual Machine and check what happens next. 2. Can you be more specific what happens after restoration complete? 3. Try to boot server in Directory Service Restore Mode.

[@malavdhimmar]

@@MSFTWebCaststep 1 i have not tried .Step 2 after restoration it goes to troubleshooting window in each and every mode ( safe , active directory restore mode etc. ) techdirectarchive.com/2021/04/04/reset-a-crash-system-and-perform-system-state-of-active-directory-using-windows-server-backup-utility/ Refer part 2 that's what exactly hapening.

[@MSFTWebCast]

In that article part-1 and part-2 are two different ways to restore the backup. Why dont you try the first method which is easy to follow. 1. Perform Clean Installation of Windows Server 2019. 2. Install Windows Server Backup Feature and AD DS service. 3. Boot Into DSRM mode. 4. Attach the backup drive to the server 5. Perform the restoration. Make sure next time server boot into normal mode. (Use msconfig to boot normally)

[@malavdhimmar]

@@MSFTWebCast in this step 4. You Said attach a backup drive to the server actually i have backup on shared drive and accessing it thru lan in DSRM ,shud i try put back up in a portable drive and try.. my back up ( system state of server 2016 ) is healthy .

[@malavdhimmar]

@@MSFTWebCast i have HP Proliant DL180 Gen 9. I have tried to restore back up on hcl server thrice, then tried to restore on same HP server same issue everytime. After restoration it goes on troubleshooting screen.