Thursday, October 21, 2010

Using DPM 2010 to Restore a System State or Perform a Bare Metal Recovery for a Windows 2008 Server

Here's a step by step video from Microsoft's Shane Brasher on how to restore the system state of a Windows 2008 Server using DPM 2010.

http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/bb0b5339-445b-4298-8705-350f13227b93

And here's one detailing how to perform a Bare Metal Recovery of a Windows 2008 Server - the Bare Metal recovery is a new feature to DPM 2010 and will come in really handy in a non-virtualised environment or if you choose not to back up the entire VHD each day:

http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/bec0b1c6-d1fd-41f0-b4bc-df5791dfc68d

Always handy to know how to do this in case of emergency!

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