To create a backup for windows server 2012 r2 you have different choices such as using the windows server backup command line a third party backup tool.
Windows server 2012 backup types.
In my previous article i explained how to install windows server backup feature in windows server 2012 in today s article you will learn how to create a backup of the system state active directory using the windows server backup feature in windows server 2012.
However windows server has default limitations.
If the hardware of physical windows server gets damaged or corrupted it can be recovered instantly from windows server.
There are two ways to create windows server 2012 r2 backup to external hard drive.
It is the server version of windows based on windows 8 and succeeds windows 7 based windows server 2008 r2 released two years prior two pre release versions a developer preview and a beta version were released during development.
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The windows server backup application that is built in to windows server versions 2008 and later is a little gold mine and i ve written about it before as well as ways to manage it windows.
Step 1 go to server manager tools windows server backup.
Set up or customize server backup.
The traditional way is using the built in tool windows server backup wsb.
Windows server backup is a feature that provides a set of wizards and other tools for you to perform basic backup and recovery tasks for the server it is installed on.
Step 3 click next.
Now let us go and configure the backup feature it for which we should follow the steps given below.
This video showing how to schedule incremental backup on widows server 2012.
The unused space of usb must be equal to or more than 64gb.
Step 2 click on backup schedule in the left side panel or click on action at the top of the screen as shown in the following screenshot.
You should protect your server and its data automatically by scheduling daily backups.
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Server backup is not automatically configured during installation.
After creating a full backup for windows server you can easily restore our computer to its previous normal working condition in case of power surge virus attack or disk crash.
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