You always have the default backup tool from Microsoft known as Windows Server Backup (WSB). This comes as a built-in tool, but it is not automatically configured, therefore, you will have to do it ...

To run the backup program on a Server Core system, you can just use WBADMIN as you would (for example) in a script on a full server box, for example: wbadmin.exe start backup -backupTarget:servershare ...

Restarting the Windows Server Backup Service requires you to stop the Service and then start it. If the Service is stopped and not running, you will have to just start it. Let us see how to start and ...

Over the next several weeks I’ll be blogging about significant pros and cons of the Server 2008 version of the backup tool that debuted in Windows Vista, so that you can decide whether the supplied ...

It turns out you can build your own backup utility instead of buying one. But you have to be brave. Back in September 2008, I described some of the changes that came with Windows Server 2008, ...

I inherited a role of supporting a server(2008 R2) with one Hyper-V VM. The VM is where the action is, the host just sits there and hosts. The VM contains another 2008 R2 install with the user ...

As someone who writes about a wide variety of technical subjects, I maintain a fairly extensive lab environment so I can experiment with the techniques that I write about. Unfortunately, my lab ...

QNAP has announced the availability of its new NetBak PC Agent, a license-free full system backup solution for Windows. Imagine you’re working on your Windows PC or managing a server, and suddenly, ...

The pending launch of Windows Server 2012 release 2 focuses on offering a number of advanced capabilities in storage and networking, which used to require the purchase of additional software, or even ...