INetU offers a new backup solution! Restore24, a full-service solution provided by INetU, delivers nothing less than peace of mind. Restore24 eliminates your risk of losing important information. We’ll keep your data safe so if disaster strikes, your system will be up and running much faster, saving you valuable time and money.
Restore24 engineers are available 24 hours of the day to implement your recovery needs. They can customize your backup and recovery solutions to meet your recovery point and time objectives, perform restores, and answer any of your Restore24 questions!
Build & Test! It’s not enough to simply implement a backup system; the system must be continually tested and monitored. Restore24 engineers perform daily automated test restores on your environment to ensure our system executes without any imperfections. Daily test restores makes sure your data is always available and provides you the comfort of knowing it works! Restore24 is fully managed by INetU, meaning you don’t have to do anything. Once you request a restore, engineers will start restoring your data immediately. Restore24 also provides the client the flexibility to perform on-demand backups and restores themselves.
While developing Restore24 our main objectives were to increase the reliability and performance from our old backup system – and we accomplished this! At INetU we are committed to providing the most up to date solutions for all of our clients.
Not having to think about backups is awesome and what would be even more awesome is not having to design a solid backup plan for your environment. But that’s not the name of the game. In complex IT environments it’s difficult to come up with a backup solution, however it’s necessary if you want to be able to sleep peacefully at night. Here’s some tips on how to design a solid backup plan:
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Every IT professional should be familiar with backups. Be it a simple file copy for safe keeping or a complex backup system for a multi-server environment. Regardless of which method your employ, it is important to simply have a backup plan in place. There is a myriad of options available for performing system backups, but they can be split into major camps based on the methods they use to perform the backup; file-level and block-level. For those that need to know the difference, this article will help shed some light on the difference between the two.
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In yesterday’s blog post I showed you how to configure a backup, today I’ll show you how to restore the Windows Server backup. In this example I am using the Windows Recovery Environment from Windows Server 2008 deployed through WDS. You can also boot to this from the installation disk or create your own media such as WinRE on a CD-ROM or USB flash drive.
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n Windows Server 2008, Microsoft has decided to scrap the treasured NTBackup and replace it with Windows Server Backup (WSB). Windows Server Backup is its own beast, boasting Image based backups rather than file level backups. The term image backup is used loosely in WSB; it is not a clone of the disk but rather a selective backup of the necessary components to perform a restore for the OS to a functional state. Things such as the page file and blank space, for example, are not backed up.
WSB utilizes VSS to accomplish the backups and stores the backup files in VHD format. In addition, you can also configure incremental backups with WSB, this will maximize disk usage and avoid data duplication as compared to nightly full backups. Recovery of the server is simplified as well, as you do not need to follow the traditional incremental restore process. Instead, you simply chose the restore point you want to revert back to and WSB handles the restore as if it were a full restore.
Although WSB has its shortcomings, it is ideal for single server backup and recovery. For all you do-it-yourself types, I’m going to show you the process of performing a backup of a Server 2008 box and restoring to that backup using Windows Recovery Environment. Note that Windows Server 2008 requires a physically attached disk for backups. This disk will be locked down by WSB and cannot be used for any additional purposes.
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