system state
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 I wanted this backup to copy to the backup target of x:\DC01 how the above line be typed out?
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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?
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.
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.
Give me a few minutes. I'm spinning up a lab and will test it out.
The backup program creates a folder that has a date time stamp on it, so I don't think it will overwrite.
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.