Active Directory Backup On Windows Server - NAKIVO

Active Directory Data Backup and Recovery Solution

Ensure your Active Directory data stays secure and fully recoverable, no matter the scale of the incident.

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Effortlessly Recover Active Directory Data from Application-Aware Backup

Not every recovery needs to be full-scale. With NAKIVO, you can restore exactly what you need – a user account, a deleted group, a contact or a schema attribute – minimizing downtime and avoiding the risks of a full rollback.

Solution Brief

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Active Directory Data Backup at a Glance

Incremental and App-Aware Backups

Perform incremental and transactionally consistent backups with app-aware processing to protect application data.

Ransomware Resilience

Enable immutability and apply encryption to eliminate the risk of data loss.

Automated Protection

Streamline the protection of Active Directory data with automated backup and recovery workflows.

Fast Granular Recovery

Instantly restore entire AD environments or specific objects to avoid downtime and reverse unwanted changes.

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Back Up Active Directory Data with the NAKIVO Solution

Perform Fast Active Directory Backups

Improve backup performance with incremental backups that copy only the changed data blocks using proprietary change tracking technologies. When application-aware mode is enabled, NAKIVO ensures that Active Directory data is captured in a transactionally consistent state during VM, EC2 instance, or physical machine backups.

Recover AD Objects Instantly

You can instantly restore your entire AD or individual objects directly from compressed and deduplicated backups using the granular recovery capability. This allows you to quickly roll back to any previous state and undo unwanted changes.

Send AD Backups Offsite or to the Cloud

Store Active Directory data on multiple platforms to eliminate a single point of failure and ensure data availability in case of a disaster or disruption. The Backup Copy feature streamlines storage tiering by allowing you to send data to local repositories, offsite or to the cloud.

Improve Ransomware Resilience

Apply AES 256 encryption and role-based access control to protect AD data from unauthorized third-party access. You can also enable immutability on backups containing AD data to prevent modification or deletion by ransomware.

Improve Application-Aware Backup Performance

Increase data transfer rates and achieve shorter backup windows with the Network Acceleration feature. You can also use the built-in Advanced Bandwidth Throttling capability to limit bandwidth consumption for backup jobs and offload your production network.

Save Storage Space and Costs

Store only unique data in the backup repository when regularly backing up Active Directory data using the global data deduplication feature. You can further reduce storage consumption with the adjustable compression functionality in NAKIVO Backup & Replication.

Run Data Protection Tasks Automatically

Automate data protection workflows by scheduling AD data backups and recoveries using the Calendar dashboard. You can also run backup jobs automatically using the job chaining feature and back up data based on specific criteria with Policy-Based Data Protection.

Check Backup Recoverability

Verify that your Active Directory data backups are recoverable with the instant verification feature for VM backups. You can automate the verification workflows and run them without affecting your production network.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication Pricing

Get affordable Active Directory data protection tailored to your environment – physical, virtual or hybrid – with free technical support included. Compare editions Get cost estimate SUBSCRIPTION Starting at $2.45 per workload/month PERPETUAL Starting at $229 per CPU socket

Customer Testimonials

"We like instant file recovery and the ease of mounting virtual drives and then accessing them. We can search for files and folders, select them and then receive them by email or just download them. With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, we are also able to see Active Directory containers and objects and recover them in the same way." Steven Tomney, ITS Infrastructure Team Leader at Ideal Standard Read More "We can easily recover a single file in the VM, without having to recover an entire VM first. With NAKIVO, we can search for Active Directory objects and containers, view object attributes and recover deleted Active Directory users… We found a professional solution that covers all our needs, saves money, and provides reliability." Mickaël Masquelin, IT Department Manager at the IEMN Read More "I really like the simplicity and ease of recovering a particular file or object from a specific recovery point." Daniel Beták, CEO at Kostax Read More "Our VMware VMs store everything from SQL servers to Microsoft Active Directory… With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, we save at least an hour per day and can allocate that time to other important business operations." Robin Damen, CEO and Owner of Virtual Computing Read More ‹ ›

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What’s New in NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Discover the latest updates that simplify Active Directory protection, boost recovery speed and strengthen your defense against data loss and ransomware.

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FAQ

How does the NAKIVO solution handle backup retention for Active Directory?

NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers a flexible retention policy that allows you to keep up to 4,000 recovery points. You can customize retention settings for each recovery point and rotate them on a daily, weekly or monthly schedule to meet your data retention needs while optimizing storage use.

Can I use the NAKIVO solution to manage backups across multiple clients or locations?

Absolutely. NAKIVO Backup & Replication allows you to manage up to 100 isolated tenants from one centralized console, enabling secure, efficient operations at scale. This makes the solution suitable for MSPs and IT teams handling distributed, remote environments.

Can I protect Active Directory along with other workloads using NAKIVO Backup & Replication?

Yes. NAKIVO Backup & Replication supports a wide range of environments, including virtual, physical, cloud and SaaS. You can protect VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, Amazon EC2, physical Windows/Linux servers and workstations, Microsoft 365 and more – all managed from a single solution.