Hi Greg,

There is an option checkbox called Use Microsoft best practices for selecting the system state , where Microsoft does not support recovery of portions of the operating system. Attempted recovery of portions of the operating system, with this box cleared, may render the system unbootable. After each recovery operation,this option is automatically selected.

Do not clear the "Use Microsoft best practices for selecting the system state" box except where specifically instructed to do otherwise in the Admin guide. For instance, there are some procedures, such as recovering DFS data, where you can clear this attribute.

This option in under the NetWorker tab in the NMM GUI , so by default it is selected so the BootableSystemState are all selected as this is Microsoft Best Practices for restore, otherwise, you can clear this checkbox and choose the components individually , but you have to double check the NMM Admin guide before proceeding with that.

Hope this helps,

Ahmed Bahaa

Hi Ahmed,

thanks for answering. As we read in the documentation, we remove this checkbox.

But it still not possible to select only NTDS. All Bootable system state are greyed.

Thanks again for your help.

Regards,

Greg

Hi Greg,

Are you booting your NMM client from the Directory Service Restore Mode (Windows Domain Controllers only) boot mode before performing the restore ?

Thanks,

Ahmed Bahaa

Yes

Hello,

No one use Networker to do AD recovery?

Thanks.

Greg

Gregoire_Perrenoud wrote: No one use Networker to do AD recovery?

I did it once with 7.5.x, but not NMM as you do.  With NMM I only tested granular AD backup/restore which also worked fine. However, things have changed since in procedures....