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Backup SystemState Windows Server to a network share



Backup SystemState of a server to a network share is preferable rather than backing up to another partition within the local server.

Backing up to a network share is quite a good practice, so just in case anything goes wrong to the local server the system state is still safe since the backup is on a network share.

So, it’s like the old adage. Don’t put eggs in one basket. If all eggs are in one basket and if the basket is broken then everything is gone. Same logic goes to a server backup, protecting a server with a backup but then putting the backup to a local partition does not really protect the server from hard disk failure.

How to backup system state using wbadmin to a network share?

It’s quite straight forward but command prompt must be run at an elevated mode, and a network share that is accessible by the server and has enough space to hold the backup.

Command below will work with Windows 2008 and Windows 2012; newer version of Windows may still work but not tested.

wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backupTarget:\\192.168.1.2\backup\Server001SystemState -quiet


\\192.168.1.2\ -- IP Address of the network share

Backup – shared folder name

Server001SystemState –sub folder of the shared folder (it’s better to put descriptive folder names so can easily remember which one is which one)

-quiet – option to tell the server to run the backup in quiet mode or in the background

To automate systemstate backup Task Scheduler will come in handy, see link below on how to use Task Scheduler to backup system state:

https://quickbytesstuff.blogspot.com/2013/10/windows-server-2012-backup-system-state.html

Cheers!! Till next time. 


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