any idea how to backup a server?

[John Moore]

Hi, 

We've just got our new server running and going well so far....

But I was just thinking if we should back it up to an external hard-drive or something so that if something happens we won't have to start from scratch. 

The content wouldn't be the main thing but the settings/permissions/users/etc would be the important stuff for us to back up.

Does anyone know a simple and inexpensive way to do this?

We running a windows 2008 r2 standard server.

Thanks in advance.

John

[Greg Ashe]

Data backup/restore is quite different from a bare metal backup/recovery. 

Windows Server 2008 R2 will give you basic free functionality. 

This article is a useful reference:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd979562(v=ws.10).aspx

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[Niall Hickey]

I find the in built backup is fine for local incremental backups.

For continuity/backup we have two servers set up.

We use DFS with namespaces for all shared drives and user profiles.

In this way if one server falls over we just enable DHCP on the secondary and rebuild the first. It keeps everything backed up and sync'd as well as preserving permissions. It was also very easy to set up.

You could also sign up for Office365 A2 plan for free and just use it to back up users data to the cloud.