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If you care about local accounts, yes.
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What do you mean local accounts? &nbsp;Do you mean user accounts? &nbsp;So if i have a non domain controller and it crashed and i had to restore it from a backup which didnt contain the system state are you saying the restore will not be complete? &nbsp;So i guess if i simply went ahead and included the system state for all the servers it would do no harm i guess except to just take up more storage space correct?
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What do you mean local accounts?  Do you mean user accounts?  So if i have a non domain controller and it crashed and i had to restore it from a backup which didnt contain the system state are you saying the restore will not be complete?  So i guess if i simply went ahead and included the system state for all the servers it would do no harm i guess except to just take up more storage space correct?

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Thanks for the clarification
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Does a non domain controller need to have the system state backed up?
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Does a non domain controller need to have the system state backed up?

System state backup for non domain controllers

The term "Backup" means the methods and processes involved to copy computer data (system data as well as application data) to media other than the ones where the data originally live (disk, tape, optical, cloud). "Restore" in turn means the methods and processes involved in data recovery, i. e., bringing back copied computer data to their original location. Backup/Restore primarily serves as a means of protection against data loss, be it due to disaster, corruption or sabotage. It can also be used for recovering data from an earlier point in time and even for cloning machines or applications. There is a wide variety of backup/restore software available, from expensive commercial products to free or open source tools.

Storage Software

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.