The Commvault Cloud software offers complete Active Directory (AD) forest recovery, allowing you to recover from severe AD schema corruption, ransomware attacks on domain controllers (DCs), and other issues that affect all DCs. You can use Commvault Cloud to back up the AD database on your DCs and to create runbooks that orchestrate and automate full forest recovery.
Microsoft provides a detailed procedure to recover a forest in the Active Directory Forest Recovery Guide. The procedure is comprehensive and can take days to recover an entire forest using native AD tools.
Commvault Cloud follows the Microsoft procedures for recovering a forest, while simplifying the planning and preparation. By orchestrating and automating the 50 – 100+ complex steps involved in a forest recovery, Commvault Cloud can reduce the time required to restore AD from days to hours. Flexible and interactive runbooks also simplify the task of creating and regularly testing your AD disaster recovery plan.