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Number of ways if one is using a RAID 1 system (hardware) pull a drive, perform an NTBackup including system state and copy the file off else where or 3rd party backup soft ware to tape or disk. &nbsp;The backups allow a system to be recovered as it was prior to SP2 or any other issue (hardware failure, etc.)<br />
This should done to protect ones self should the install of SP2 go south, most times it does not.
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Number of ways if one is using a RAID 1 system (hardware) pull a drive, perform an NTBackup including system state and copy the file off else where or 3rd party backup soft ware to tape or disk.  The backups allow a system to be recovered as it was prior to SP2 or any other issue (hardware failure, etc.)
This should done to protect ones self should the install of SP2 go south, most times it does not.

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Before installing Windows Service Pack 2 on my Windows Server 2003 it says to Backup System first. &nbsp;How do I do this?
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Before installing Windows Service Pack 2 on my Windows Server 2003 it says to Backup System first.  How do I do this?

Backup system Windows Server 3

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).