MCITP: Windows Server® 2008 Enterprise Administrator, Study Guide

8.15. Summary

With Windows Server 2008, there are a myriad of backup, recovery, and data security methods available at your administrative fingertips. In this chapter, I covered the appropriate utilities you can use at the appropriate time to create a secure and reliable backup in case of a failure.

The Windows Server Backup utility can create both full and partial backups simply and easily. It can take advantage of spare drives, file shares, and spare space in almost any location.

I also covered when to use load balancing and when to use clustering. More important, I covered the differences between each. Load balancing is primarily used to separate the processing and network demand on each server and place it upon one individual machine. Clustering ...