A method for recovering data of a cell in a Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) wherein each cell includes a server associated with a database, a DCE administrator workstation with DCE administrator software for managing the cell, and a plurality of users being included in at least one organization. This method comprises the following steps which are automatically performed by the DCE administrator software after initialization by the administrator workstation: a) generating for each organization, the DCE commands necessary for recovering all data associated with the users included in the cell, and b) building an executable program comprising the generated commands and data associated with each user included in the cell, the executable program being used to restore or duplicate the cell.