Windows server backup software

Windows server backup software with server partition magic - MiniTool Partition Wizard Server Edition.

You can go to http://www.partitionwizard.com/download.html for server backup software and also do system backup with Nt backup.

As we know, Ntbackup is a tool for system backup which is replaced by Windows Server backup in Windows Server 2008. Some administrators think Windows Server backup is not so easy to use as ntbackup because backup the whole system will take a long time to backup and recover. However, there is a snapshot tool added into Windows Server 2008. This tool can help you backup and restore in a quick way. Now, Let us see how to backup and restore with snapshot

1. Brief introduction
Snapshot, as a system snapshot tool, can create, load, recover system snapshot in order to achieve backup and restore of server system. There is one thing to explain, Snapshot run under command-line mode.

2. Create system snapshot
Do Ntdsutil. exe under command-line mode, According to the command prompt, enter the snapshot after the ntdsutil, input activate instance ntds examples of the activities is ntds after snapshot and input create after snapshot. In this way, the system snapshot is successfully created.

The Ntdsutil. exe order we just used is a command-line tool for AD. It can maintain and manage AD database, control single mainframe, create application directory partition and delete the remain metadata of DC.

3. Load system snapshot
After creating current system snapshot, we can load the system snapshot into a disk directory with mount. Input mount at above command prompt to load created snapshot. A tip shows C:$SNAP_200801141137_VOLUMEC$. So system backup is complete. Click C:$SNAP_200801141137_VOLUMEC$, you will see the same system file directory as current system.

4. Restore system
For the individual systems, we restore system simply by PE or any other mode with the C:$ SNAP_200801141137_VOLUMEC $ directory of the file to replace the system files files. Let me give you an example of load snapshot and check it by AD. At the command line execute the command dsamain-dbpath C: $ SNAP_200801141137_VOLUMEC $ Windows tds tds. dit-ldapport 33890. Load read-only snapshot of the database, the port number 33890 for the load. To view the AD instance, you can in turn click on "Start → Administrative Tools → Active Directory Users and Computers" in the DC domain, right click and select "Change Domain Controller" Open "Change Directory Server" dialog box, click "This domain control or the AD LDS instance ", you can see the current state of AD, To see examples of the AD, just type something like" DC port.

5. Delete snapshot
If you want to delete system snapshot just created, just run command prompt tool, input ntdsutil into command line, input snapshot and input list mounted to check snapshot created and then delete snapshot.