Re: Backing up a Windows AD DC with samba-tool

That’s how I do it as a very last resort.

I also do:

As my DCs run in a hypervisor , at a convenient time I shut them both at the exact same time and do a snapshot.

If using Proxmox , you can schedule a backup with VMs stopped for the same effect.

Backing up the full VM takes about 2 minutes. My VMs are 10GB disk.

I run the procedure weekly.


On 5 Apr 2026 at 20:32 +0200, Peter Milesson via samba <[email protected]>, wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Is it possible to back up a Windows 2022 AD DC with samba-tool? And how
> could I restore it, if it's possible?
>
> Running "sudo samba-tool domain backup online --targetdir=/home/<some
> user>/<backupdir> --server=DC1.mydomain.talps -UAdministrator" gives me
> 2 compressed archives, one with the domain data, and one with sysvol
> information.
>
> The reason I ask is, that backing up the domain of a AD DC under Windows
> take ages, while the Samba version finishes within a few seconds.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Peter
>
>
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