According to Microsoft - no.

To be more specific, you can't recover directly to another machine. Using NTBackup you can backup and then restore it to disk as files (at least some AD configurations, I'm not sure if everything can be restored in a file format). It's something Microsoft alows and also suggests in some procedures.

But you can't recover to disk with Networker, there's an RFE opened for it, so let's wait.

Well, it´s just something I found last week and would like to share. I don't think that this is what you would need.

Do you know LGTpa/LGTsc for that RFE? Also, once you brought back data to disk, how do you complete recover with MS? I could not find that on their support site, but perhaps I missed right Q article.

LGTpa37135 (as far as they told me, I wasn't able to confirm that)

I'm not sure about the complete recovery process, it is something my Windows team keep telling me everytime. One thing I remember they told me was that you could burn this data to a CD, and then use this to install a new domain controller, then you would not need to wait for all the data to be sycronized between the dc's.

As I told, I don't believe you can do this to every object on system state, but as I even didn't know about this AD trick, maybe there's something else in this crazy Windows world

That looks as very very old RFE - probably start of SYSTEM STATE usage. I guess to do it you would need to boot machine into Directory Services Restore Mode and then run restore.

I know at that early time MS had Q article stating this was not supported and thus EMC followed same approach. I could not find it now so perhaps something has changed in 2003 and now is up to EMC to enable that - I really have no idea. I think MS supports such approach then EMC should follow that too.