Proper Backup/Restore Methods for a Small Business Server 2008 Running as a Virtual Machine

re: Proper Backup/Restore Methods for a Small Business Server 2008 Running as a Virtual Machine

Malum — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:54:15 GMT

This is a great post, thanks!

re: Proper Backup/Restore Methods for a Small Business Server 2008 Running as a Virtual Machine

Frederic Kinnaer — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:23:58 GMT

Great article!

But what if you only have one DC (in this case, the SBS)?

re: Proper Backup/Restore Methods for a Small Business Server 2008 Running as a Virtual Machine

Nat — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:26:31 GMT

What are the implications of this if you only have one DC? IE the SBS08 VM Guest? Does any of this change?

re: Proper Backup/Restore Methods for a Small Business Server 2008 Running as a Virtual Machine

Rob — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:14:43 GMT

"When a domain controller is restored from backup, another metadata attribute called an invocation ID is used to notify other domain controllers in the network that this server is indeed being reintroduced into the current domain from a previous state."

So if there is just the SBS server and no other domain controllers, this is a non-issue?

re: Proper Backup/Restore Methods for a Small Business Server 2008 Running as a Virtual Machine

Andrew Solmssen — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:21:04 GMT

But in the case of a single SBS 2008 server with no other member servers or BDCs, why is an image or snapshot backup so bad? There are no replication partners to become confused by the reintroduction of an older state.