Tag: Backup

The following describes how to restore a CA certificate with a software key.

Restoring the certification authority certificate may be necessary for the following reasons:

• Restore a certification authority from a backup
• Migration of the certification authority to a new server
• Emergency signing of the CRLs on another computer

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Assume the following scenario:

• You use certutil.exe or the PowerShell commandlet Backup-CAService to back up your Active Directory Certificate Services database.
• In addition to a full backup, you also perform regular incremental backups of the CA database.
• The incremental backups fail with error message "The database missed a previous full backup before incremental backup".

Incremental database backup for…
 Backing up Log files: 0%CertUtil: -backupDB command FAILED: 0xc8000230 (ESE: -560 JET_errMissingFullBackup)
 CertUtil: The database missed a previous full backup before incremental backup

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