Administrator Guide

Steps
1. Start Server Manager, from the Manage menu, select Add Roles and Features.
The Add Roles and Features Wizard is displayed.
2. Complete the on-screen instructions in the Add Roles and Features Wizard, in the Select features dialog box, select the
Windows Server Backup check box, and then click Next.
3. Confirm the feature to install and click Install.
The Windows Server Backup feature is now installed on your system.
4. To access Windows Server Backup, start Server Manager and do one of the following.
● From the Tools menu, select Windows Server Backup.
● From the Tools menu, select Computer Management > Storage > Windows Server Backup .
The Windows Server Backup console is displayed in the working pane of the window.
The following backup options are available:
● Local Backup—To perform a single backup or schedule a regular backup using the Backup Schedule Wizard or the
Backup Once Wizard on your system.
NOTE: In Windows Server Backup, use the Recovery Wizard to recover files, applications, volumes, or the
system state from a backup that was created earlier.
● Online Backup—To perform an online backup, register your system for the Windows Azure Online Backup. For more
information, go to technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831419.aspx.
Selecting volumes to back up
To create a backup, specify the volumes that you want to include. The volumes you select impact what you can recover. You
have the following volume and recovery options.
Volume
Options
Recovery Options
Full server (all
volumes)
Back up all volumes if you want to be able to recover the full server—all the files, data, applications, and
the system state.
Critical volumes Back up critical volumes (volumes containing OS files) if you only want to be able to recover the OS or
system state.
Non-critical
volumes
Back up individual volumes if you only want to be able to recover files, applications, or data from that
volume.
Selecting a storage location
Consider the following storage type details when choosing a storage location for your backups.
Storage Type
Details
Shared Folder
If you store your backup in a remote shared folder, your backup is overwritten each time you create a new
backup. Do not select this option if you want to store a series of backups.
If the backup process fails while you are trying to create a backup to a shared folder that already contains
a backup, you might be left without any backups. To work around this, you can create subfolders in the
shared folder to store your backups.
DVD, other
optical media, or
removable media
If you store your backup on optical or removable media, you can only recover entire volumes, not
applications or individual files. In addition, backing up to media that has less than 1 GB of free disk space is
not supported.
Local hard disk
If you store your backup on an internal hard disk, you can:
● Recover files, folders, applications, and volumes.
● Perform system state and operating system recoveries if the backup used contains all the critical
volumes.
However, you cannot perform an OS recovery if the backup is on the same physical disk as one or more
critical volumes.
34 Using your NAS system