Back in the day, Microsoft's free backup tool was the now venerable NTBackup. However, that utility has gone to the great recycle bin in the sky. Windows Server 2008 offers a new set of backup tools, ...

There’s some good news for IT managers deploying Windows Server 2008: Backup and Restore has been reworked in this edition to leverage the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and block-level transfers ...

You always have the default backup tool from Microsoft known as Windows Server Backup (WSB). This comes as a built-in tool, but it is not automatically configured, therefore, you will have to do it ...

Schedulability. No complaints here. The new backup tool lets you set your own schedule for repeating backups. In fact, the utility nudges you to create a backup schedule the first time you use it.

To run the backup program on a Server Core system, you can just use WBADMIN as you would (for example) in a script on a full server box, for example: wbadmin.exe start backup -backupTarget:servershare ...

Planning on using Windows Server 8 for your on-prem hosting needs? Get ready to use Azure. If you want to, that is. Microsoft is working on a cloud-based backup system for Windows Server 8 that will ...

I inherited a role of supporting a server(2008 R2) with one Hyper-V VM. The VM is where the action is, the host just sits there and hosts. The VM contains another 2008 R2 install with the user ...

Did you know that with Windows Server 2012 you can now backup Hyper-V VMs with very little effort and very little configuration? Now, I'm not recommending that you throw out your existing enterprise ...

Restarting the Windows Server Backup Service requires you to stop the Service and then start it. If the Service is stopped and not running, you will have to just start it. Let us see how to start and ...

It turns out you can build your own backup utility instead of buying one. But you have to be brave. Back in September 2008, I described some of the changes that came with Windows Server 2008, ...

Have a few Macs in the house that used to back up to a Time Capsule until it died. Infrequent USB drive Time Machine backups since, and my wife's Mac Mini is now so stuffed it can't backup to the ...

If you have multiple PCs in your home or small office, you can save time and look professional by storing your documents and media on one PC and using network sharing to access them across all your ...