Bkf Restoration Fails On Windows Server 2003 As A Domain Controller
When you try to restore backup from a BKF file using NTBackup utility on a server acting as a domain controller with Windows Server 2003 SP1 or SP2, the restoration process may fail. You can encounter certain error messages as:
“Backup Status
Operation: Backup
Active backup destination: File
Media name: "bkup_file.bkf created MM/DD/YYYY at HH:MM AM|PM"
NTDS has reported a VSS error 0x800423f0.”
Because a user can not carry out system state backups and restores, objects in Active Directory could not be restored on the domain controller. Thus a user can not perform the following operations:
. Restore deleted objects
. Retrieve data from corrupted BKF files
. Restore Active Directory on a computer that can not load Active Directory after improper system shutdown
After this behavior of NTBackup utility, the restoration process gets terminated and you can not get your precious data back.
Cause
In Windows Server 2003 SP1 or SP2, the restoration works only when the operating system, the log files and the database are all on same disk volume or all are on different drives. However, this problem occurs when one volume, either log or ntds.dit file is on system drive. It results into BKF file corruption and thus the restoration fails.
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