Re: Taking a backup of AD Integrated DNS

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From: Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP] (admin_at_nospam.LSAOL.COM)
Date: 03/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 07:51:02 -0600

In news:4060371d$0$6551$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net,
Andy Johnson <andyjohnson1965@hotmail.com> posted a question
Then Kevin replied below:
> Is there a way that I can take a backup of my DNS if it is AD
> integrated or is this data held within the ntds.dit file? Our DNS now
> contains many entries and rekeying would be a nightmare. Also, I may
> not want to restore AD just to get my DNS back.
>
> Thanks,

Convert the zone to standard primary, this will create a text file in the
%systemroot%\system32\dns dir with the zonename.dns. Then you can back this
file up and change it back to AD integrated.
If you lose the zone, you can recreate the zone as standard primary and use
this zone file to get data from before you convert to AD integrated. 

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