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I DELETED ACTIVE DIRECTORY FILES!!?!

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Brazen

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First of all, all the Active Directory data is stored on a second drive (D🙂 in a folder called ActDir (the sysvol and NTDS folders are in here). Now I don't remember why, but a couple months ago I made a copy of this folder on the D: drive (called it D:\Copy of ActDir). So now, I'm thinking I don't need this copy any more so I'm connected through the file share (\server\d$\) and I delete Copy of ActDir. I chugs for a while and then says directory can not be deleted, so it deleted a bunch but not everything.

Now the problem, to make a long story short, I realized that when deleting a file from Copy of ActDir it also deleted the corresponding file from ActDir!! I don't think NTDS was touched, but I know I'm missing stuff in Sysvol. I have a full backup with CA BrightStor ARCserver (program sucks), but it won't restore files to the Sysvol directory; it says the directory is empty. Do I need to restore something else? Anybody have any ideas?

Windows 2000 domain by the way with a backup domain controller.
 
Can you extract the db from your backup source? From there you will need to logon to the domain controller in the domain restore mode menu by pressing F8.

I believe it is pretty straigt forward from there. I have only done it using microsofts embedded backup tool. But all it seemed to do was copy files and reboot the machine.
 
I think it's fixed. I restored the system state. I still don't know why I can't delete the Copy of ActDir folder, though.
 
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