Active Directory Backup and Restore

Support for Third-Party Backup Tools

The Backup tool can read tapes created by third-party vendor backup tools. This can be useful in situations in which the third-party backup software is not readily available for some reason, such as when a computer is rebuilt and your third-party backup software is not yet installed. Also, third-party tools permit the use of remote tape devices, which are useful when performing enterprise-wide backups. For the Backup tool to read the tape successfully, the software used to create the tape must use the Microsoft tape format (MTF), and it must not compress the data.

For more information about specific procedures for performing backup and restore by using the Backup tool, see Windows 2000 Server Help.