BackupNotes

BackupNotes

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General Tips

Only Administrators or Backup Operators can perform backups and restores .

Other backup options like compression may be available, depending on the type of backup device installed on your system.

Scheduled backup jobs appear in the Scheduled Tasks folder in the Control Panel and can be run immediately, deleted, or configured there. In order to schedule backups, the Task Scheduler service must be running (it is by default).

Backing Up to CD-R/RW

You can't use the Backup utility to back up directly to CD-R or CD-RW drives . A workaround is to back up to a file and then use the CD-burning capability of WS2003 to write the file to CD as follows :

Insert blank writable CD into CD-R drive open Windows Explorer drag items to CD-R drive

Restoring System State

If you can't restore your system state, boot to Safe Mode and try again.

If you plan to restore system state data, be aware that the restore process overwrites the existing configuration information on your server, so if you restore from an old backup set, you lose any configuration changes made since that set was made.

To restore system state data on a domain controller, you must use the Advanced Options menu to start the computer in Directory Services Restore Mode.

See Also

Advanced Options Menu , dcgpofix