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Backup and Restore Management Tasks

Updated: December 5, 2005

Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

Task	Permissions Required to Perform Task
Back up Active Directory	User-right Backup Files and Directories is required. User performing task needs to be member of Administrators (BuiltIn\Admins) group on DC because NTBACKUP required user to be Administrator to perform System-State backup.
Perform an Non-Authoritative restore of Active Directory from Backup Media	In Stand-alone mode: User-right Restore Files and Directories is required. User needs to be member of local Administrators group on server because NTBACKUP required user to be Administrator to perform System-State restore. In DS-Restore mode: User needs to be Administrator in DS Restore mode.
Perform an Authoritative restore of Active Directory from Backup Media	Requires user to be Administrator in DS Restore mode.

Task

Permissions Required to Perform Task

Back up Active Directory

User-right Backup Files and Directories is required.

User performing task needs to be member of Administrators (BuiltIn\Admins) group on DC because NTBACKUP required user to be Administrator to perform System-State backup.

Perform an Non-Authoritative restore of Active Directory from Backup Media

In Stand-alone mode:

User-right Restore Files and Directories is required.
User needs to be member of local Administrators group on server because NTBACKUP required user to be Administrator to perform System-State restore.

In DS-Restore mode:

User needs to be Administrator in DS Restore mode.

Perform an Authoritative restore of Active Directory from Backup Media

Requires user to be Administrator in DS Restore mode.

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