SYSVOL and NETLOGON Shares missing after restoring the DC

[naveedsarwar]

Hi,

I have 3 DCs running on Windows 2008 R2 functional level 2003 being backed up through VEEAM 9.5 Update 4a. Backup seems to be happening successfully however whenever I restored the DC VM it doesn't show all the shares and SYSVOL and NETLOGON shares missing. I have application aware backup and I can restore the AD object.

I have contacted with VEEAM but that didn't help much and tech advise me to use Sure backup. Any help will be appreciated.

Regards
NAV

[HannesK]

Hello,
and welcome to the forums.

Which way of restore did you do? https://www.veeam.com/kb2119

What is the case number?

Thanks,
Hannes

[naveedsarwar]

Thanks Hannes.

The case no. is 03665654 and I have applied couple of methods including Restore directly to the different ESXi host and restored VM files and imported in isolated environment.

I believe it is application-aware backup issue.

Regards
Naveed

[HannesK]

Hello,

I have applied couple of methods

well, Active Directory has a multi-master replication system in the background. So it is important to keep that in mind during restore. In the situation you have now, I suggest asking a Microsoft expert to fix the replication issues. You probably see tons of replication errors in the eventlog.

I believe it is application-aware backup issue.

very unlikely because application aware processing is just calling Microsoft VSS. I mean, you use 10 years old technology, so chances are there that there are VSS issues in that old software.

The most important thing is: was the backup you restored definitely application-aware and successful? If not, it's just a matter of time that your domain goes down with USN rollback issues.

Best regards,
Hannes