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The location you use to store backed-up GPOs should have permissions set to prevent
unauthorized access to the GPOs.
To back up all GPOs in the domain, right-click the Group Policy Objects container in the
console tree and select Back Up All from the menu.
If you have a backup of a GPO, you can quickly recover if you modified the GPO and
the results were not quite what you expected. You can restore the backup of the GPO by
following these steps:
1. Open the GPMC and navigate to the Group Policy Objects container that hosts the
GPO you want to restore.
2. Right-click the GPO and select Restore From Backup.
Read the Welcome screen in the Restore Group Policy Object Wizard and then click
Next.
3.
4. Specify the location of the backed-up GPO on the Backup Location page and click
Next.
5. Select the version of the GPO you want to restore, as shown in Figure 6-15.
FIGURE 6-15 The Source GPO page of the Restore Group Policy Object Wizard
6. You can view the settings of any version shown in the Source GPO page to ensure that
you are restoring the correct version by clicking View Settings.
7. Select the version of the GPO you want to restore, click Next, and then click Finish.
8. When the GPO is restored, click OK.
You can manage your backed-up GPOs. Right-click the Group Policy Objects container in
the GPMC and select Manage Backups from the menu to open the Manage Backups dialog
box (see Figure 6-16).
 
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