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You can do a full backup of your domain controller and can do a restoration in case of disaster. GPO could be backup up per separate, but on full backup are backed up.<br />
What is your plan?<br />
Maybe this document could help you to decide: <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727048.aspx" rel="ugc">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727048.aspx</a>
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You can do a full backup of your domain controller and can do a restoration in case of disaster. GPO could be backup up per separate, but on full backup are backed up.
What is your plan?
Maybe this document could help you to decide: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727048.aspx [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727048.aspx]

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Well it would be nice to have the AD and GPO backed up in preparation to cover failure of a DC in the network. <br />
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It may be the AD/GPO does not change that often say once a week.
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Well it would be nice to have the AD and GPO backed up in preparation to cover failure of a DC in the network.

It may be the AD/GPO does not change that often say once a week.

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We are running the DC's in the AWS environment. So is System State the best and easiest way ?
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We are running the DC's in the AWS environment. So is System State the best and easiest way ?

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Yes, system state backup is the best way for this. Do a system state backup on all your domain controllers.<br />
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Regards,<br />
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JBond2010
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Yes, system state backup is the best way for this. Do a system state backup on all your domain controllers.


Regards,

JBond2010

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Running Windows 2012. - with Active Directory and Domain Policies, what is the best way to back up the AD and Group Policies &nbsp;and the way to restore these back
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Running Windows 2012. - with Active Directory and Domain Policies, what is the best way to back up the AD and Group Policies  and the way to restore these back

Backing up Active Directory and Group Policy in Windows 2012

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.