Chapter 7 discussed various utilities that can assist you in diagnosing and understanding NDS/eDirectory issues. In this chapter, you'll learn about tools that will help in protecting and recovering lost DS information. Such information may have been deleted by mistake or you may need to restore a crashed server to a working state.
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Chapter 11 complements the information presented in this chapter. This chapter covers recovery tools in general and offers some one-step solutions to simple DS recovery needs, while Chapter 11 presents examples of specific DS issues in detail.
The following topics are discussed in this chapter:
Backing up and restoring DS with Storage Management Services (SMS) and using the eDirectory Management Tool Box (eMBox)
NDS/eDirectory recovery using Server Specific Information (SSI) data after a server crash
Recovering lost passwords and lost Admin user account
Detecting and adding objects that are blocked by Inherited Rights Filters (IRFs)
