Manage Backup and Restore

Published: April 26, 2010

Updated: March 30, 2011

Applies To: Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials

Windows SBS 2011 Essentials provides a reliable way to perform regular backups of your server and backups of your home computers to storage drives on the server. In the event of data loss, you can restore the data from a successful backup on the server without restoring the entire computer. If necessary, you can perform a full system restore to your computer from a backup on the server.

• Develop a Backup Plan

• Backup Best Practices

Client computer backup and restore

• How does computer backup work?

• How does backup work with sleep and hibernate modes?

Configuring Backup

• Understanding the computer backup settings

• Change the time that backup is scheduled to run

• Add or remove drives or folders for a client computer backup

• Reset backup to default settings

• Reinstall connector software on a computer with existing backups

While it is not recommended, you can disable backup for a client computer if you want. If you do disable backup for a client computer, you can easily enable it again.

• Disable backup for a computer

• Set up backup for a client computer

Restoring from an existing backup

If a file becomes corrupt for any reason, or if you want to restore an older version of a file, you can easily restore the file from a backup on the server.

• Restore files or folders from a client computer backup

Restoring the full system for a client computer

If the operating system on your client computer should become corrupt for any reason, you can easily perform a full system restore from a backup on your server.

• What is computer full system restore?

• How does system restore media work?

• Create a bootable USB flash drive to restore a client computer

• Using the Full System Restore wizard

• Which backup should I choose?

• Where can I find the drivers for my hardware?

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Manage the backup database

• Manage computer backups

• Change the computer backup retention policy

• Keep or delete backups when removing a computer from the network

• Backup for an archived computer

• Tell me more about the repair and recovery tools

• Repair the backup database

• Remotely manage your backups

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Server backup and restore

Configuring server backup

Server backup is not configured when you finish installing Windows SBS 2011 Essentials.

• Learn more about setting up server backup

• Configure server backup

• Change the server backup configuration

• Disable server backup

• Using BitLocker with server backup

Running server backup

• Manually backup your server

• Which backup should I choose?

• Stop server backup in progress

Restoring data from an existing backup

• Learn more about restoring files and folders

• Restore files and folders from a server backup

• Which backup should I choose?

Recovering the server

• Tell me more about server recovery

  • Restore or repair your server using the installation DVD

  • Restore or reset your server using the recovery DVD provided by the server manufacturer

• Learn more about creating a bootable USB flash drive

• Tell me more about resetting my server to factory default settings

• Tell me more about connecting to my server

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Backup status

• View backup status

• View and manage backup alerts

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Troubleshoot backup and restore

• Troubleshooting Computer Backup and Restore Errors

• Troubleshooting Server Backup Configuration Errors

• Troubleshooting Server File and Folder Restore Errors

• Cannot create the recovery media

• Run the backup Cleanup task