Backup

In this quick Ask an Admin, discover how to use backup in Windows XP to create a full backup of your PC.

Interested in using the vCenter server appliance? Learn how to backup and restore the internal database.

In this quick Ask an Admin, check out how to restore Active Directory using Windows Server Backup in WS2012 R2.

In this easy-peasy Ask an Admin, find out how to use Windows Server Backup in WS2012 R2 to restore a file or folder.

In this Ask an Admin, find out how to use Windows Backup to back up a Windows Server 2012 R2 DC.

In this guide, learn to perform the Hyper-V Replica initial copy by restoring VMs from backup in the secondary site.

Brimming with Full Drive Encryption questions? We got you covered. Check out our FAQs about FDE and Bitlocker!

We’re back to backups! Jeff Hicks shows how to export Hyper-V virtual machines using PowerShell and Hyper-V Manager.

Don’t get lazy! Michael Simmons shows you how to backup Sharepoint 2010 data in three easy steps.

vSphere based backup solutions such as VMware Data Recovery and Veeam Backup and Replication v5 rely on vSphere’s snapshot technology to backup live VMs, which excludes Fault Tolerant VMs as they do not allow snapshots. In this article, Tom Finnis explains how to use custom scripts to work around these restrictions and enable regular scheduled backups of Fault Tolerance protected Virtual Machines.