Optional Task - Backup your Server (Requires a backup location not included in the VC).
Windows Server Backup
Windows server backup is not part of the default install of Windows server so requires installation first.
1. Switch to the AMS-DC1 server. Login as canon\administrator
2. Open Server Manager, Open add Roles & Features
3. From the Features section select “Windows Server Backup”
4. Complete the feature install.
5. Search for Windows Server Backup in the start menu or simply type Backup while the start is selected.
6. Open the Windows Server Backup wizard.
7. Right click on the Local Backup, there are some configuration actions available under Configure Performance Settings. For this training select Normal Backup.
8. There are options for backup including a single backup or create a backup schedule. For our training we will create a schedule as this is the best way to maintain your servers.
NOTE: If you have been instructed to carry out the Optional Task to recover the server you will need to create a single backup now.
Create a Scheduled Backup.
1. Open the Backup Schedule Wizard. Right click the Local backup and select backup schedule.
2. Select a Full Server Backup and a time to backup of 8pm everyday.
3. Backup to a Hard Disk. look at the other options.
NOTE: If a network share is used only one backup will be made and overwritten each time.
4. You will receive the following warning screen if you only have one drive available and online. This is because our backup in on the same drive as the operating system and is not recommended. It is also not posible to actually backup the backup drive.
5. As long as a valid backup drive is available you will get the option to select the drive. Select the available drive "Microsoft virtual"
6. Agree with the format disk warning. Then select Finish the backup schedule.
Optional Backup / Restore Task
Recover your operating system or full server.
In this excercise you will recover your operating system or full server using a backup created earlier and Windows Setup options. This excersise can only be carried out using a dedicated hardware in the classroom, recovery in the virtual classroom is performed in a different way using snapshots.
Using the Windows instalation media
1. Insert the Windows Setup media that has the same architecture of the system that you are trying to recover into the DVD drive or USB and start or restart the computer. If needed, press the required key to boot from the disc or USB. The Install Windows Wizard should appear.
2. From the Install Windows wizard:
3. Specify language settings.
4. Click Next.
5. Click Repair your computer.
Setup searches the hard disk drives for an existing Windows installation and then displays the results in System Recovery Options. If you are recovering the operating system onto separate hardware, the list should be empty (there should be no operating system on the computer).
6. Click Next.
7. On the System Recovery Options page, click System Image Recovery.
This opens the Re-image your computer page.
8. Click Use the latest available system image (recommended). or Click Restore a different backup.
9. On the Select the location of the system image page, click the computer that contains the backup that you want to use.
10. Click Next.
Note: If the storage location contains backups of multiple computers, make sure that you click the row for the backups for the computer that you want to use.
11. Then, on the Select the system image to restore page,
12. Click the backup that you want to use.
13. Click Next.
14. Click Advanced to browse for a backup in a remote shared folder on the network and provide the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path to the backup.
15. Click Next.
Note:
If you use a domain in your environment, and if the backup storage location is on a computer that is a member of that domain, then computer containing the storage location should be accessible by non-domain computers. When a computer boots into Windows Recovery Environment, it becomes a non-domain computer and cannot access the usual network shares. Only those computers that allow non-domain computers to access the share can be used as a backup storage location in this way.
16. On the Choose additional restore options page, do the following optional tasks, and then click Next:
- Select the Format and repartition disks check box to delete existing partitions and reformat the destination disks to be the same as the backup.
- This enables the Exclude disks button.
- Click this button and then select the check boxes associated with any disks that you want to exclude from being formatted and partitioned.
- The disk that contains the backup that you are using is automatically excluded.
Note: Unless a disk is excluded, data on it can be lost—regardless of whether it was part of the backup or whether it has volumes that are being restored.
You should not exclude the boot disk—the first disk in the BIOS boot order. (This disk is usually referred to as Disk 0, although may label as something else, for example, Disk 1/2.) If the boot disk (Disk 0) is excluded, then Windows will try to do recovery on BIOS Disk 1. But after the recovery, the system will not start and it may fail with an error that Bootmgr is missing. The BIOS will always use the first disk in the boot order to search for this file and if it is missing the computer will not start.
17. In Exclude disks, if you do not see all the disks that are attached to the computer, you might need to install the associated drivers for the storage device.
18. Select the Only restore system drives check box to perform an operating system–only recovery.
19. Click Install drivers to install device drivers for the hardware that you are recovering to.
20. Click Advanced to specify whether the computer is automatically restarted and the disks are checked for errors immediately after the recovery.
21. Confirm the details for the restoration, and then click Finish.
The recovery will succeed as long as all the critical volumes (volumes containing operating system components) are recovered. If any data volume cannot be recovered then Windows will show a prompt with unrecovered volumes at the end of the recovery operation (for example, volumes on virtual hard disks and Internet SCSI (iSCSI) disks).
Later, you can disable or enable Windows Recovery Environment by doing the following:
- To disable Windows Recovery Environment
- To open a command prompt with elevated privileges, click Start, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator.
- At the prompt type: :\Windows\System32\REAgentC.exe /disable
Note: This procedure prevents Windows Recovery Environment from being launched manually by pressing F8.
- To re-enable Windows Recovery Environment
- To open a command prompt with elevated privileges, click Start, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator.
- At the prompt type: :\Windows\System32\REAgentC.exe /enable
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