Windows Server 2012 Backup Restore Bare Metal

Windows server backup can be used within a virtual machine environment in the same manner that it is used on a physical server to provide backup and recovery services.

Windows server 2012 backup restore bare metal.

To be able to use windows recovery environment you need a windows server recovery disk or installation disc. Create a bare metal backup of windows server 2008 r2 2012 r2 2016 or 2019. If you want to be able to convert to more kinds of virtual machines like vmware virtualbox you can also use windows server backup to restore to virtual machine. Image based backup allows you to restore normal computer operations after disasters of any kind so it is important to implement this backup type.

Then you can restore windows server backup to virtual machine. If you have followed my previous tutorial how to backup your windows server 2012 r2 essentials server to usb drives you should have kept your backup drives offsite and nothing will be lost. If you want to restore windows. Run recovery on the dpm server.

In the next screen verify settings and click finish to begin the restore. In choose how to restore the backup select format and repartition disks. The server has been stolen or because of a fire it is completely lost and you need to restore system and data to a new server. Screenshots of the above procedure can be found in the technet blog entry bare metal restore and there is a youtube video of the process at windows server 2008 backup and restore.

In the recovery pane find the machine you want to recovery bare metal recovery. Windows small business server sbs screenshots are located in the technet blog entry how to perform a bare metal restore on small business server 2008. It can also be used from within a windows azure virtual machine for bare metal backup recovery system state backup recovery file folder backup and recovery.