1. Windows Server Backup
Chapter 18

2. Windows Server Backup Business continuity Data redundancy
Backup and Restoring Windows Server
Limitations
Full Server Backups/Restores
Recovering System State
Backing Up and Restoring Just Files and Folders
WSB Command-line

3. Business Continuity
Business continuity—the activity performed by an organization to ensure that critical business functions will be available to customers, suppliers, regulators, and other entities as required 24 hours a day to those functions.

4. Business Continuity
Methods used to maintain business continuity may include but is not limited to:
Creating a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)
Data backups
Server redundancy
Off-site backups
Using Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS)
Implementing alternative power sources.

5. Data Redundancy
Data redundancy—a property of some disk arrays (most commonly in RAID systems) which provides fault tolerance, so that all or part of the data stored in the array can be recovered in the case of disk failure.
RAID 1—Mirrored disk drives.
RAID 5—Data striping with parity
Fault tolerance —the property that enables a system to continue operating properly in the event of the failure of some of its components.
RAID 5
Redundant power supply  

6. Data Redundancy
Windows Server Backup (WSB)—provides a basic backup and recovery solution for computers running the Windows Server 2008 operating system.
WSB is not installed by default. It must be added as a Feature through Server Manager:

7. Backing up and Restoring Windows Server
Can be used to back up remote computers
Uses Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)
New improvements:
Can backup single files and folders
2008 had to back up entire volumes
System state backups and recoveries can be performed using WSB in Server Manager
Full functionality via command line and PowerShell
Will automatically delete old backups to make room for current backups
Can backup up to remote shared folder or virtual disks.

8. Limitations
Only supports backing up to internal, external or to optical media (CD/DVD). Tape is no longer supported.
Data size limit of 2TB per volume that can be backed up
Only backs up volumes that are formatted with NTFS
Cannot read backups created with NTBackup.exe

9. Full Server Backups/Restores
Full server backups are the easiest to perform and one of the best types for recovery
Full server backup includes(QUIZ):
All local volumes
Critical volumes
System state
You can recover individual files/folders
Can perform “bare-metal” recovery

10. Full Server Backups/Restores

11. Full Server Backups/Restores

12. Full Server Backups/Restores

13. Recovering System State
What is system state?
Component
When this component is included
Registry
Always
COM+ Class registration database
Boot files, including the system files
Certificate Services database
If it is a Certificate Services server
Active Directory Domain Service
If it is a domain
SYSVOL directory
Only if it is a domain controller
Cluster service information
If it is within a cluster
IIS Metadirectory
If it is installed
System files that are under Windows File Protection

14. Backing Up and Restoring Just Files and Folders
Used when you are more concerned with recovering data than the operating system
Good for virtual systems or when the operating system can be restored through imaging
Ghost
Imagex.exe
Bare-metal backup option in WSB: Can restore an image of your server after suffering a catastrophic failure without having to load operating system and WSB.
Boot to 2008 R2 Installation media
Choose Repair computer and VIOLA!
Must have good bare metal backup image first though 

15. WSB Command-line Backups Can be scheduled or performed manually
Command line options—
Wbadmin.exe
Wbadmin.exe START RECOVERY –version:09/30/ :30 –items:d:\common – itemtype:File –backupTarget:E: -recursive
START RECOVERY—tells wbadmin.exe to begin restore operation
-version—defines the backup version to use for the restore
-items—provides comma-delimited list of items to restore
-itemtype—specifies the type of objects in a –items list
-backTarget—location of the backup file you want to use for the restore operation
Backups can also be performed using PowerShell
Add-PsSnapin Windows.ServerBackup (this adds the backup module to PowerShell)

16. Questions?