Indispensable built-in backup and recovery features

With the continuous improvement and maturity of the operating system, there are more and more security mechanisms to protect your operating system. It is understood that Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 mainly rely on built-in mechanisms to protect your data and system settings. Let's talk about the magical features of Windows built-in backup and recovery. Let's take a look at it.

NTBACKUP is the ancestor of these backup technologies. NTBACKUP has been applied since the days of Windows NT. A multifaceted way to back up and restore files, NTBACKUP allows you to back up your data and Windows operating system to disk or tape. The backup process can also be controlled by schedule or manually.

When I was in the first MCSE training (probably in the 90s), my lecturer told us that “NTBACKUP will work at a critical juncture, but don’t put your work on it. "At the time, I thought this was a bit weird, but when I was using third-party backup software, I didn't care about this, but when the time passed, I gained more experience when using NTBACKUP, despite NTBACKUP and Compared with a version that has been greatly improved, I still unify what my lecturer said at the beginning " Don't put your work on it.”.

NTBACKUP works fine for most parts, but there are some strange things to happen if you want to perform a full system recovery, unless you use a backup type called automatic system recovery, NTBACKUP Disaster recovery is powerless. This means that if you need to recover your Windows operating system, you will usually have to install Windows and then restore your backups.

Now, when restoring data, sometimes some system settings are not restored to the way they should be restored. I have never experienced such a recovery problem and need me to return to the system to an operational state. I had to make some manual settings after the recovery was completed. In this case, it may be best to use a third-party backup software in a product environment.

Another problem: NTBACKUP is not designed for multiple server backups. You can map a disk to another server by disk and then back up the disk, but even this is limited. For example, with disk mapping technology, you cannot back up the system state of a remote system.

But, in addition to these, what NTBACKUP really needs is a better interface.

Automated System Recovery Automated System Recovery (ASR) is an integral part of NTBACKUP that allows you to perform a Windows operating system disaster recovery (Bare Metal Restore) despite automatic system recovery (ASR) ) It works well and it still has some limitations.

First, if you use a separate ASR backup, you can only use Automatic System Recovery (ASR): back up the Windows operating system and use a separate floppy disk during the recovery process.

This leads to a second limitation. If you want to restore an ASR backup, the computer you want to recover must have a floppy drive. However, in the current era, the floppy drive is very rare.

The third limitation is that ASR is only a function to perform disaster recovery of Windows operating system. Applications installed in Windows cannot be recovered by ASR. This means that you must use ASR to recover the Windows operating system, and then use your usual backup to restore your other applications and data device driver rollback (Device Driver Rollback) device driver rollback function is still very valuable. If you use a computer long enough, you may have found some garbage or incorrect device drivers that caused your computer to crash. In the past, the solution to this problem was to restart the computer into safe mode, delete the old driver and install the new correct driver.

Although this method can be implemented, it seems a bit too much trouble. This often requires many restarts —— you have to spend a lot of time resetting a device driver. Another problem is that sometimes Windows can't allow you to reset a wrong driver because it's newer than the driver version you're going to replace it. Perhaps the biggest trouble is that you don't have a copy of a known well-functioning driver to replace those that are damaged. Previous12Next page Total 2 pages