From the course: Career Essentials in System Administration by Microsoft and LinkedIn

Windows client backup solutions

From the course: Career Essentials in System Administration by Microsoft and LinkedIn

Windows client backup solutions

- [Instructor] With the explosion of workers working from home instead of at the office CIS admins are going to need to be backing up computers that may not be in the office, they may be at the home office. So what we need to do is to send our users a hard drive, and then open up Computer Management, and make that hard drive available for Windows Backup. I've attached to drive I'm going to go to Storage and Disc Management, and it's going to prompt me to get that drive ready to be used. The drive is online I'll create a new volume, and finish. Now that that drive is ready I need to go into Control Panel to do what's called a Bare-Metal Backup. Now there's another option that we can do which is designed for Windows 10 at 11, but in this option it allows us to do a Bare-Metal Backup it's the only way to do it and it uses Windows 7 technology as you see here. After Windows 7, Microsoft went a different direction and decided to go with Volume Shadow Backups instead. Volume Shadow Backups basically allow you to backup specific files rather than doing an entire Bare-Metal Backup. We see the E drive has already sanctioned four backups but it's not big enough to backup the entire drive. So I'm going to click on Options, and choose Manage Backup disc space, and I'm going to change from our E drive to our new F drive. And I can do that by clicking on Close and going back to Options but this time we'll click on Change Backup Options. And now I'll change to the F drive, click Next. I'm going to choose to let me choose what I want to back up, and now I can choose just my own files and folders in my user's folder by choosing these options that you see here, or I could choose the entire hard drive by clicking on the C drive and also you see it includes a system image that allows us to do the entire partition to be recovered. Now just for demonstration purposes I'm going to uncheck that box and uncheck that, I'm just going to choose a single folder and click Next, save settings and run backup. This backup should actually go fairly quickly since it's just a small folder. Now we also see the option to create a system repair disc. You'll have to have a DVD burner and a blank DVD disc in there in order to create this. But what it'll do is it'll allow you to boot off of that DVD and then you can select your image and then do your restoration if you need to do a full Bare-Metal restoration. But if you just need to restore specific files and folders you can do it while you're logged into Windows and click on Restore my files. Now I'll choose to Browse for files, and choose my Shared data, I can double click and just choose the individual document or choose the entire folder. I can also click on Browse for folders, and choose Add folder. Now I can choose to the original location if I'd like or in the following location. I'm going to go down to File Explorer, and I'm going to go to This PC C drive and I'm going to delete this Shared data folder. So now I'm going to say go ahead and put it in the original location and click Restore and just like that, my folder's been restored. I'll go back to File Explorer, and there's my Shared data folder and file inside. Windows Client Backup can be easily done using the included application to either a local drive or to a network share. There are also third party cloud solutions for a fee that can back up as well.

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