Create a bare metal backup of windows server 2008 r2 2012 r2 2016 or 2019.
Windows server backup 2016 bare metal recovery.
Best for up to 5 computers.
To perform bare metal restore you need to.
In the next screen verify settings and click finish to begin the restore.
Both fail about 1 into the c.
In choose how to restore the backup select format and repartition disks.
In the recovery pane find the machine you want to recovery bare metal recovery.
Windows server online backup solution with image based backup and bare metal recovery.
2 my test server is a dell optiplex 780 with ws 2012r2.
Hardware and operating system failures are rare but they can happen.
When creating the windows server bare metal backup with wsb you need to select the item bare metal.
This example covers the recovery of the whole server and can be used if the server is unable to boot into windows.
A malfunctioning fan could overheat a computer motherboard and render it useless.
The operating system could become corrupt and refuse to start.
Just ordered a new dell server and installed server 2016 with 2 virtual servers both 2016 setup the windows backup on the hardware installed server backing up to usb drive.
5 tb storage limit.
It has 2 146gb sas drives configured as raid 1 and 6 300gb sas drives configured as raid 5.
1 my production server is a dell pe r710 with ws 2016.
Crashed the server i wanted to test the restore capabilities unfortunately bare metal restore is not working.
What to prepare for bare metal restore.
In windows server 2016 there are two ways to run backup and recovery jobs one is with the graphic user interface gui of windows server backup the other is with wbadmin from a command prompt.
Boot the server using the windows dvd.
Windows server backup provides the option to recover files and folders applications and data volumes the full server the system state only or a backup catalog.
I have tried the bare metal backup using a 1tb usb drive and a network share qnap.
Choose repair my computer.
Run recovery on the dpm server.