I have used a windows 2003 server for many years. I used ntbackup to backup the system state. How do I backup the system state on a windows 2008 R2 server?
Thanks Will. That worked. Here is another question. If I take the bare metal backup and I have a total server failure will I be able to restore from this full backup?
Yes, that is exactly what a bare metal backup is for...total disaster.
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Have you ever gone through one before? If so, how did it go?
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Forgot to ask. If I schedule a system state backup for every day at 3am will it overwrite the previous backup or will it keep adding backups? I want it to delete the previous backup and only keep 1.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Cc753201.aspx
To create a system state backup by using Wbadmin start systemstatebackup
1.To open a command prompt with elevated privileges, click Start , right-click Command Prompt , and then click Run as administrator .
2.At the prompt, type:
wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backupTarget:<VolumeName>
This also works for Server 2012.
In addition, any decent up to date 3rd party backup software should give you the option as well.