Introduction to Active Directory Backup and Restore

This chapter discusses how you can back up and restore Active Directory by using the graphical user interface (GUI) and command-line tools provided in Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server. The GUI tool, Backup, is used to back up and restore Active Directory (as well as other data and services). The command-line tool, Ntdsutil, is used in conjunction with Backup and gives you finer control over which Active Directory objects you restore.