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Small Business Server 2008 Backup question
I am about to install Small Business Server 2008 onto an HP ML350 G5 server.
My question is about backups
I have read several book about installing Small Business Server 2008. After reading them it’s not clear to me if one can restore individual files after a backup or whether an entire image must be restored.
The native backup in Windows 7 allows either an image backup or individual file backups. Individual files cannot be restored from an image backup.
1.) What is your experience using the native Small Business Server 2008 backup?
2.) What process did you use to be able to restore individual files yet still backup Exchange and SharePoint Services?
My question is about backups
I have read several book about installing Small Business Server 2008. After reading them it’s not clear to me if one can restore individual files after a backup or whether an entire image must be restored.
The native backup in Windows 7 allows either an image backup or individual file backups. Individual files cannot be restored from an image backup.
1.) What is your experience using the native Small Business Server 2008 backup?
2.) What process did you use to be able to restore individual files yet still backup Exchange and SharePoint Services?
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Interesting thread. I have avoided large capacity drives for a number of reasons which probably explains why I have not run into the issue. Thread explains the details nicely particularly why reformat does not solve the problem.
Still you know you have the problem when you first try a backup no? Also using a USB drive as you sole backup target is probably not the wisest anyway (and who wants to rotate drives). So I guess I still feel that using Windows backup as part of a general backup solution is reasonable. The only problem I have ever had with it was trying to replace a drive and do a bare metal recovery. Wouldn't work until I installed a drive that was larger than the original.
Anyway discussion is probably going to far OT.
Still you know you have the problem when you first try a backup no? Also using a USB drive as you sole backup target is probably not the wisest anyway (and who wants to rotate drives). So I guess I still feel that using Windows backup as part of a general backup solution is reasonable. The only problem I have ever had with it was trying to replace a drive and do a bare metal recovery. Wouldn't work until I installed a drive that was larger than the original.
Anyway discussion is probably going to far OT.
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Thank you for your prompt answers.
One other PIA with the built in backup,if you have a non NTFS recovery partition,the built in backup will fail as it only recognizes NTFS.
Check out my thread on EE
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/27850089/SBS-2011-Backup-to-USB-External-Drive.html