Terms you need to understand:
Techniques you need to master:
The Windows Server 2003 family includes many new features and enhancements for better storage management. Managing and maintaining hard disk drives and storage volumes and backing up and restoring data are more reliable and easier to do. Improvements in storage management help reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) while making Windows Server 2003 more secure, robust, and reliable. Planned downtime and maintenance are reduced. Backup operations can be completed with open file backup. Backup uses shadow copies, ensuring that any open files accessed by users are also backed up. In this chapter, you'll learn how to use Automatic System Recovery (ASR) to back up and restore a Windows Server 2003 installation in the event of a catastrophic failure. You'll also learn how to restore user data versions using Shadow Copies of Shared Folders. Updating device drivers sometimes results in system instability or even the famous Blue Screen of Death. With the new Device Driver Rollback feature, you can easily uninstall the errant driver, restore your previous driver, and get back to work. Backing up, restoring, and maintaining security for backup operations are discussed along with troubleshooting problems with restoring data. Finally, troubleshooting boot startup process failures using the Windows Server 2003 variety of troubleshooting tools and utilities is analyzed . |