Restore using windows backup server 2008

I checked this and it was the only disk in the pc. I was however able to view available backups on my internal backup drive after booting from the install CD and chose the one I wanted. Its later on that it was complaining about the disk. I could try this if you think the command line will give different results. Need the following info: 1 How many disks were attached during backup?

By volumes I assume you mean partitions. I took a picture on my iphone I will send it to your email add. Email: vikas. Friday, November 6, PM. Hi, If everything is fine as per your last reply, then we need the logs to debug any issue. Please try the Recovery from Cmd line tool:wbadmin. You may copy the logs to some other drive so that they are not lost during system reboot. Saturday, November 7, AM. Monday, November 9, AM. Thanks for the feedback. This is a client's server and I should be having another stab at it this wknd.

When the backup features have finished installing, open Windows Server Backup from Administrative Tools on the Start menu. In the Actions pane on the right, click Backup Schedule.

Click Next on the Getting Started dialog. Choose Full Server on the Select backup configuration screen. Click Next to continue. On the Specify backup time screen, leave the default option of once a day at selected and click Next. To select an internal disk, click Show All Available Disks.

Click Yes to continue. Click Next and then Finish on the confirmation screen. The Backup Schedule Wizard will then format the disk and you will be presented with a summary screen, telling you when the first backup is scheduled to run.

Click Close to continue. To run the scheduled job ahead of time, click Backup Once in the Actions pane, in Backup options leave the default settings, click Next and then Backup on the confirmation screen.

Figure 1 If you have multiple disks available for use with Windows Server Backup, the Backup Schedule Wizard lets you specify more than one backup destination. System State Backups The system state is included in our full backup, but what if we want to run a quick system state backup without the overhead of the entire system volume? Click Recover in the Actions pane on the right. Leave This server selected and click Next on the Getting started screen.

On the Select backup date dialog, select the date and time of the backup you want to use for the restore operation and click Next Figure 2. Leave the default option of Files and folders selected on the Select recovery type dialog and click Next. On the Select recover options dialog, leave the default options selected to restore the files to the original location. Review the confirmation screen and click Recover. Once the restore is completed, click Close on the Recover progress dialog.

We want a way to roll back updates and configuration changes. How do I restore my Windows Server R2 to previous date? Any ideas?

But you still can use other features to achieve the same goal, namely system state backup or full backup. Three methods will be introduced in details later. Here you will use Wbadmin Wbadmin. Step 1. Type cmd in the search box, right click the command prompt and run as administrator. Step 2. Type the system state recovery command based on the following syntax and press enter to execute system state restore.

If you just have one backup, you can choose not to specify backup target. The steps will be much easier and less error-prone than using wbadmin command line. Please follow the steps below. Type windows server backup and select it from the result list. Then, you will see its main page, click Recover under the Actions tab.