Windows small business server 2008 disaster recovery

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It is probably not necessary to point out, but since the question does come up, any additional servers or workstations in the SBS network are not backed up by SBS Backup.

You must configure backups for those systems separately. It is possible to use more than one target drive for SBS Backup, in fact it is encouraged. The Official SBS Blog post referenced in the top of this article gives specific guidance on how to do this.

There is good reason to have at least three target drives instead of two. Second, it means that if you have a policy to keep one drive out of the building at all times you can accomplish this because there are only two in the building when you are changing target drives. If you ever find all three in the office at the same time, take one of them out to the car, preferably the one you just disconnected, assuming the SBS Performance Report confirmed the backup was successful.

There have been instances of the order of the target drives, or the recognition of target drives by the SBS Backup becoming "out of kilter". While the cause is not clear, the symptom is a drive letter is added to one or more of the target drives which removes it from the SBS Backup pool. Deleting the backup logs, removing the drive letter and formating from the target, then clicking on Disable Backup, followed by running Configure Server Backup, should allow one to "start fresh" with the two drives.

SBS will take quite some time to create the first backup on each target. This happens because the SBS Backup routine compares each and every block on the source to the target VHD and copies them from the source to the target. Once that first copy has been made, subsequent backups to the same target will be much faster as only the changed bits are copied to the target. One thing to be aware of is that changing from Target1 to Target2 will result in longer elapsed times for the next backup than if you had left Target1 in place, even if no changes have been made to the source.

If you change targets and "backup now" you will notice the lag compared to leaving the original target in place and performing sequential backups. In the usual case, SBS Backup is self maintaining. You should be able to run years of backups to the same target drives without any issues, because the backup process is intelligent enough to make room for the current changed bits by clearing out the oldest ones. It does this with an "auto delete" feature that clears out the oldest bits.

Partitions on the new computer must match those on the original computer. Specifically, all the drive mappings must be the same and the partition size must be at least equal to that on the original computer. Windows Server and later support bare metal restores to dissimilar hardware with the built-in backup utility.

This is a non-issue. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Asked 9 years, 3 months ago. Active 9 years, 3 months ago. Viewed 1k times. A system state backup of the domain controllers is run every day. The company suffers a disaster a fire or flood that damages their servers beyond repair.

Improve this question. Fitzroy Fitzroy 2 2 gold badges 3 3 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. Because Active Directory is backed-up as part of the 'system state' which is very much bound to the original hardware , you have to go to a reasonable amount of hassle to tweak things on your new hardware.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Here is the section you need to pay attention to: Considerations for restoring onto different hardware It is possible to restore a domain controller onto different hardware. However, you should consider the following issues: Different hardware abstraction layers HALs.

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