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13 Protecting Microsoft Active Directory with
single-pass backup
This section describes how to use single-pass disk and application backups to protect the Active
Directory Domain Services role of Microsoft Active Directory.
The single-pass backup functionality becomes available by installing Acronis Backup Agent for Active
Directory.
Without this agent, you can protect your Active Directory data by using disk-level backup. For a
detailed description of this method, see the "Protecting applications with disk-level backup" (p. 279)
section.
13.1 Agent for Active Directory
Agent for Active Directory creates an application-aware disk backup also known as a single-pass
backup. While doing a backup, Agent for Active Directory adds Microsoft Active Directory metadata
to the resulting backup file.
The agent enables you to extract Active Directory files from a single-pass backup without recovering
the entire disk or volume. After that, you can replace the corrupted files with the extracted ones.
The domain controller can also be recovered as a whole.
13.2 Supported operating systems
Agent for Active Directory can be installed in the following operating systems:
Windows Server 2003/2003 R2 – Standard and Enterprise editions (x86, x64)
Windows Small Business Server 2003/2003 R2
Windows Server 2008 – Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (x86, x64)
Windows Small Business Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 R2 – Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, and Foundation editions
Windows Small Business Server 2011 – all editions
Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 – all editions
13.3 Installation of Agent for Active Directory
Agent for Active Directory can only be installed on a domain controller. Remote installation of the
agent is not possible.
The agent is included in the setup program of Acronis Backup Advanced.
The agent is installed with Agent for Windows (p. 16) or on a machine where Agent for Windows is
already installed.
Licenses required
Agent for Active Directory requires one of the following licenses:

Acronis Backup Advanced for Active Directory