Windows Backup Server 2003
Chrystal Dueno
You can manually back up data or use the Backup Wizard, which is included in the Backup feature. You can back up the whole contents of the server, selected portions of the server, or the system state data (the system configuration information).
Review the settings on the Backup Job Information page. Specify whether you want this backup to replace the information that is already present on the destination media, or add this backup to the existing information.
Click the Schedule tab. In the Schedule Task box, click how frequently you want the backup job to run, and then in the Start time box, specify a time when you want the backup to run, and then click OK.
If you selected Back up selected files, drives, or network data in step 4, expand the drive or folder that contains the items that you want to back up, click to select the check boxes next to the drive, folder, or file that you want to back up, and then click Next.
Review the settings that appear on the Completing the Backup Wizard page. If you want to specify advanced backup options, click Advanced, specify the options that you want, and then click OK.
If you selected Alternate location or Single folder, type the location in which you want the data to be restored, or click Browse and select the location, and then click OK.
Windows Server Backup cannot guarantee Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) snapshots are retained. In certain situations, after restoring to a new volume, the VSS snapshots may no longer be recognized and appear inaccessible. To guarantee protection of a VSS snapshot, mount the VSS snapshot, and run a backup job on that snapshot.
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. 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.
Server backup is not automatically configured during installation. You should protect your server and its data automatically by scheduling daily backups. It is recommended that you maintain a daily backup plan because most organizations cannot afford to lose the data that has been created over several days.
If you start the wizard before attaching the external hard drive to the server, click Refresh list on the Select the backup destination page after attaching the hard drive.
In the default installation of Windows Server Essentials, the server is configured to automatically perform a defragmentation once each week. This can result in larger than normal backups if you use non-Microsoft imaging software. If it is not necessary to defragment the server on a regular basis, you can follow these steps to turn off the defragmentation schedule:
When you use the Set Up Server Backup Wizard or the Customize Server Backup Wizard, you can choose to back up server data at multiple times during the day. Because the wizards schedule incremental-based backups, the backups run quickly, and server performance is not significantly impacted. By default, the wizards schedule a backup to run daily at 12:00 PM and 11:00 PM. However, you can adjust the backup schedule according to the needs of your organization. You should occasionally evaluate the effectiveness of your backup plan, and change the plan as necessary.
You can use multiple external storage drives for backups, and you can rotate the drives between onsite and offsite storage locations. This can improve your disaster preparedness planning by helping you recover your data if physical damage occurs to the hardware onsite.
Choose a drive that contains sufficient space to store your data. Your storage drives should contain at least 2.5 times the storage capacity of the data that you want to back up. The drives should also be large enough to accommodate the future growth of your server data.
If the backup target drive contains offline drives, the backup configuration will not succeed. To complete the configuration, when selecting the backup target, clear the check box to exclude drives that are offline.
If you choose a drive that contains previous backups as the backup target, the wizard allows you choose if you want to keep the previous backups. If you keep the backups, the wizard does not format the drive.
The drive cannot contain an Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) system partition. If an EFI partition is present on a USB drive, it is assumed that the disk is a startup disk. If you are certain that you don't need the data on the disk, you can reformat the disk and use it for backups.
The drive cannot contain any shared server folders. Before you can use the disk as a backup target drive, you must stop sharing on any shared server folders. You can stop sharing from the Dashboard or in File Explorer.
If a backup is unsuccessful because the backup drive had insufficient space, the drive letter for the backup target drive is removed from the Windows Server Essentials database, and the Dashboard does not display the drive. If you want to use the drive in future backups, you must reassign the drive letter using a native tool.
When you add or remove a drive, or add or remove shared files and folders, you should revisit the server backup configuration to make sure that these items are added to or removed from the backup configuration. To add or remove items for the backup, do one of the following:
For example, you may have a folder that contains recorded television programs that uses a lot of hard drive space. You may choose not to back up these files because you normally delete them after viewing them anyway. Or you may have a folder that contains temporary files that you do not intend to keep.
An Exchange Administrator has read in Microsoft Windows Server backup documentation ( -us/exchange/high-availability/disaster-recovery/restore-with-windows-server-backup?view=exchserver-2019) that restoring a single database in-place to a volume which hosts multiple databases is not possible. Instead, all databases on the volume will be restored.
Good morning. Yes you can recover a single database in-place. We call on native Exchange APIs to run the backup. It is the Microsoft Exchange VSS writer that actually performs the backup. It performs the freeze and thaw of the database as well as the integrity check. Exchange APIs are also called on for restores.
I can not comment 100% on the workings of Windows Server backup however I believe that is using VSS to freeze all databases on the VOL and snaps the whole vol. CV is taking an individual snapshot of each database one at a time. This allows for greater flexibility of restoring an individual DB in-place, out-of-place all to an Exchange location or even to a non Exchange location. Along with message level recovery.
My main desktop is Windows 7 and my plan is to use the Ubuntu computer as a file server sort of speak. I want to be able to setup back up schedules from my Windows PC to the Ubuntu PC (plan on leaving this on 24/7 to double as a Seedbox)
You want to install and configure Samba. I will assume you are using Ubuntu Server 12.04. If you have a desktop installed there may be all kinds of GUI configuration tools you can use but let's keep this simple.
I have never tried anything like that but maybe you can download samba from the Ubuntu Software Center in Ubuntu of course and configure it to share a folder, in which the backup would be located. Then download a backup software for Windows 7 and set it to backup on the folder you shared on Ubuntu.
I'm looking for a solution to schedule(Windows Environment) the backups via SAS Backup Manager.I checked all the configuration Settings and Looks fine to me. We have 3 Tier(1 Meta, 1 compute and 1 Mid-Tier) Environments. From SAS SMC, backups are scheduled and it is working fine but the Problem when we try to schedule or manually run start backup from SAS Backup Manager it is failing with Status 999 and the error is C:\SAS\Config\Lev1/Backup\backupserver.log. I dont know where this '/' (backslash) is coming from. even I have checked backupserver.ini which is configured on mid-Tier Server and Looks good to me. I have observerd "Vault" and "dropzone" Folders are empty and do we have Need to create "results", "vault" and "dropzone" Folders on metadata and Compute Servers also? In SMC, SAS Deployment backup and recoverytool 9.4 advanced Settings, sasbackkupevm.configured.Hosts "metadata" and "midtier" Servers are including with config path..do we Need to Keep both host names?
99% of the answers are usually in the logs, your need to locate it/them, read them, and if still no enough information, you would need to increase the info level of some logs (error - warn - info - debug - trace).
Thank you for the quick reply. Even i thought the same on the backslash. I checked on the logs and ist not clear. but i can say if i remove metadata Server Name from sasbacksvm.configured.Hosts (SAS Backup Deployment and Recovery tool 9.4 SAS SMC Settings), it is throwing different error with Status code 672 like below
ERROR [sasadm] com.sas.svcs.backup.aop.ErrorLoggingAspect - Error Start 672None of the backup operations will be able to complete except sas-list-schedule.ERRORERROR_CODE_BACKUP_SERVER_CONFIGURATION_FAILUREGENERALThe backup server configuration failed.
my current feeling is that your new error is directly caused by your modification, I would change that config file to its original status and continue trying to understand how your initial error was caused.
- After each change,specially if they are manual changes, and depending on the changes you do, it is possible you might need to restart the SASServer1_1, so the Deployment Backup tool picks up the changes.
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