Database log files are not truncated when you perform a full Certification Authority database backup
As part of joining PKI Solutions, several blog posts from my old site are re-posted here for visibility and thoroughness. April 1, 2020 – The issue described here is applicable to Windows Server 2016 and older. Windows Server 2019 has changed the behavior of log truncation – when a backup is performed, all unused logs […]
ADCS Database Log Truncation Change in Server 2019
In our past blogs on the subject of Windows Server ADCS backups, we have touched on the issue of jet database logs not being truncated and deleted in some scenarios. https://www.pkisolutions.com/adcsbackups/ https://www.pkisolutions.com/database-log-files-are-not-truncated-when-you-perform-a-full-certification-authority-database-backup/ Specifically, if backups are performed via snapshot or non-VSS based backups and secondly, if any logs are still held open by the jet […]
Backing up ADCS Certificate Authorities (Part 2 of 2)
In my last blog post (Backing up ADCS Certificate Authorities Part 1) I covered the inner workings of how ADCS and the Jet database works to maintain the CA data. In this post I am going to go over a comprehensive PowerShell script that I wrote to perform a full backup of all necessary ADCS […]
Backing up ADCS Certificate Authorities (Part 1 of 2)
One of the areas I have spoken about extensively at conferences and cover in our training classes is the unique issues associated with backing up and managing your ADCS Certificate Authority. There are several items I would like to address in this two-part series: CA Database and log file structure Unique issues with VM Snapshots with ADCS […]