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Figure 13-9
The Confirm Subtree Deletion message box
4. When the deletion is finished, restart ServerXX. In the Shutdown Event Tracker dialog box,
type Test AD Restore in the Comment text box, and then click OK .
5. When your server begins to restart, press F8 . Press F8 several times until the Advanced Boot
Options menu is displayed.
6. In the Advanced Boot Options menu, press the down arrow key to highlight Directory
Services Restore Mode , and then press Enter .
7. You must log on with the local Administrator account and the DSRM password, which
should be Password01. To do so, click Switch User , and then type Administrator in the User
Name text box and Password01 in the Password text box. “Safe Mode” is displayed in the
corner of the desktop.
8. Open a command prompt window. You must get a list of the available backups before you
can restore the system state. Type wbadmin get versions -backuptarget:P: and press Enter .
After a minute or so, a list of backups is displayed. Make note of the version identifier of
the most recent backup, which is the system state backup you created in Activity 13-4.
9. To begin the recovery, type wbadmin start systemstaterecovery -version: DateTime
-backuptarget:P: (replacing DateTime with the version identifier you noted in Step 8) and
press Enter . When prompted to start the recovery operation, type y and press Enter .
10. The restoration will probably take several minutes. When it's finished, you must mark
deleted objects as authoritative. Because this server is the only writeable domain controller
running, normally this step isn't necessary, but you should go through the steps so that
you're familiar with the process. With a nonauthoritative restore, you would simply restart
the server to complete the restoration. Do not restart your server, however.
11. Type ntdsutil and press Enter to start this utility. Type activate instance ntds and press Enter .
Type authoritative restore and press Enter . At the authoritative restore prompt, type restore
subtree ou=TestOU,dc=w2k8adXX,dc=com and press Enter . When the Authoritative
Restore Confirmation dialog box opens, click Yes . Type quit and press Enter and type quit
again and press Enter . The restore command specifies the object to restore authoritatively.
The rest of the Active Directory database is stored nonauthoritatively.
To restore the entire database authoritatively, use the command restore
database instead of restore subtree.
12. Close the command prompt window, and restart the server. In the Shut Down Windows
dialog box, type Restore TestOU in the Comment text box and click OK . Your server might
restart several times to complete the restoration.
13. Log on as the domain Administrator. The system state recovery performs some final tasks,
opens a command prompt window, and displays a “Completed successfully” message. Press
Enter to continue when prompted.
 
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