Windows Server 2016 Cookbook

Using Checkpoints as rollback points

Backing up physical servers and restoring them to previous points in time has always been a little bit tricky in the Windows Server world. When something goes wrong with a server, in most cases it is preferable to fix the issue, rather than to simply rollback to a previous version. If you do want to make the decision to roll back an operating system on a physical server, you are talking about creating downtime. This happens because, whether you are restoring a Windows Backup file, or if you are using some kind of imaging utility that takes a full picture of the hard drive during the backup and is capable of laying that entire image back down in the event of a recovery, you have to stop Windows from running ...