Configuring a full system backup using Windows Server Backup

Maintaining a good backup solution is so critical to administering a corporate server environment in today's IT world. There are limitless potential options for designing your particular backup plan, all the way from file copy backups to redundant servers sitting in hot standby mode.

While many third-party tools and technologies provide the capability to back up all of your servers simultaneously while retaining multiple previous versions of each, those tools are not always on the table because of cost and implementation complexity. Let's take a few minutes and familiarize ourselves with the built-in backup solution that Microsoft provides free of charge, right in the Server 2016 operating ...

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