Good Day,
Today i shall share with you a very useful procedure to take a full backup of your domain controller, this is a very important risk item that you should always consider.
A full server backup captures all volumes on all locally attached volumes. Only membership in Builtin Administrators or Backup Operators, or equivalent can perform this task.
Follow the below to perform a full server backup of all volumes by using the server backup interface:
- Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Windows Server Backup.
- If you are prompted, in the User Account Control dialog box, provide Backup Operator credentials, and then click OK.
- On the Action menu, click Backup once.
- In the Backup Once Wizard, on the Backup options page, click Different options, as shown in the following figure, and then click Next.
- If you are creating the first backup of the domain controller, click Next to select Different options.
- On the Select backup configuration page, click Full server, as shown in the following figure, and then click Next.
- On the Specify destination type page, click Local drives or Remote shared folder, and then click Next.
- Choose the backup location as follows:
- If you are backing up to a shared drive, on the Select backup location page, in Backup destination, put the shared path for backups, and then click Next
- If you are backing up to a shared drive, on the Select backup location page, in Backup destination, put the shared path for backups, and then click Next
- Under Access Control, select Do not inherit or Inherit to determine access to the backup, and then click Next.
- In the Provide user credentials for Backup dialog box, provide the user name and password for a user who has write access to the shared folder, and then click OK.
- On the Specify advanced option page, select VSS copy backup (recommended) and then click Next.
- On the Confirmation page, review your selections, and then click Backup.
- After the Backup Once Wizard begins the backup, click Close at any time. The backup runs in the background and you can view backup progress at any time during the backup. The wizard closes automatically when the backup is complete.
Regards;
Hisham Mezher
Hisham Mezher 