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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?
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If you are not comfortable with Powershell, you can also do this from the GUI as well. The link below outlines how to do Perform a System State Backup and Recovery.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee849849%28v=ws.10%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396#BKMK_System_State
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https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee849849%28v=ws.10%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396#BKMK_System_State
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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?
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.
I did and it was years ago. We were using BackupExec and I had bootable media that could access the tape drive and it worked just fine.
One word of advice I would give, don't wait to try this when you HAVE to, try it when you WANT to.
Way back then we didn't have virtual machines and it was a non-profit so there was no lab.
Take your backup and do a restore on a test system to make sure you have everything you need if/when you have to implement this.
The process will go much smoother and your users will be down much less time.
One word of advice I would give, don't wait to try this when you HAVE to, try it when you WANT to.
Way back then we didn't have virtual machines and it was a non-profit so there was no lab.
Take your backup and do a restore on a test system to make sure you have everything you need if/when you have to implement this.
The process will go much smoother and your users will be down much less time.
The backup program creates a folder that has a date time stamp on it, so I don't think it will overwrite.
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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.