You can do everything with Microsoft tools except perhaps one or two things.
First, without networker or another corporate backup tool, you cannot keep a
track of all your wsb backups. You can set up a share used by all your windows
2008 R2 servers for your wsb backups but what if it's this share that goes down
?
You have no DRP option. If you loose the wsb backup, you loose everything. So,
copy the wsb to more than one location ? Time and storage consumming. And who
will do the versionning ?
Remember that by using only Microsoft tools, you have only a dos recovery
console with the simpliest network tools
Although it's a wsb backup, I think that it's usefull to use networker to
manage them.
> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:26:08 -0400
> From: Michael.Leone AT PHA.PHILA DOT GOV
> Subject: [Networker] How to prepare for a Win2008 BMR recovery?
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
>
> <SIGH>
>
> So while I wait for NW 7.6 SP2 to come along and magically alleviate all
> my worries, how should I plan on preparing for a BMR on Win2008 now? I see
> that I have to use WSB (Windows Server Backup) to make an image of the
> server (probably on a schedule), but what then? I can make the image on
> shared storage, and back that storage up. But how does that help me if I
> need to do a BMR?
>
> Let's discuss the case of not being able to get the server to boot at all.
> Do I need to boot from a Windows install disk, and run a repair (seems
> like it)? How can it see the image that's on shared storage? Won't I have
> to copy that to some local drive (USB attached, perhaps) so that the
> repair process can see it?
>
> If the server can boot, it should see the shared storage, and we run the
> WSB recover from there, I presume.
>
> I'm guessing that Networker won't be involved at all? I use only MS tools
> to do BMRs on Win2008 (for now)? I can take Networker backups if I want,
> to to use for individual file recovers, if necessary. But why, since I
> will HAVE to use WSB, to be fully protected, and WSB should be able to do
> individual file recoveries without the need for Networker being involved.
> Am I mis-understanding something here?
>
> Any insights/experiences appreciated.
>
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