Restore Active Directory

[Chris]

The best way to a restore on active directory is to do a
authorative restore from you back up tape its easy to do
and works.

for future reference use veritask to backup active
directory or Quest Active Directory Restore.

 

[chrism]

Wouldn't it be better to do a non-authoritative restore ?
That is the recommended way as I understand it.

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Maybe we are missing the first part of the post ( er, the actual problem ).
Can not really tell you which is the 'best' method is as you use one in one
scenario and the other in a different scenario.

So, what is the scenario?

Cary