KB 944530<\/a> describes a registry entry you can create to enable system state backups to critical volumes.<\/p>\nTo enable the system state backup files to be targeted to critical volumes, you must set the value of the AllowSSBToAnyVolume registry entry under the following registry subkey:
\nHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\wbengine\\SystemStateBackup\\<\/i><\/p>\n
Set the value of this entry as follows:
\nName: AllowSSBToAnyVolume<\/i>
\nData type: DWORD
\nValue data: 1<\/i>
\nNote When this value is set to 1, system state backups to any volume are enabled. To revert to the default behavior, set the value to 0.<\/p>\n
The next rule, which I find to be particularly ridiculous, is that you cannot save System State backups to a remote share on another server. When I attempted to do this I encountered the following message:<\/p>\n
\u201cCreating a system state backup to a shared network folder is not allowed. To store a system state backup on a shared network folder, first run the backup to a local volume and then copy the backup to the shared network folder.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
Sounds great in theory, but like I said before, if you only have a C Drive and no other local volumes, unless you hack the registry the only way you can backup the System State is to do a complete system backup.<\/p>\n
The third rule is you can only backup entire volumes, which means no choosing which folders and files are backed up. I find this odd, since I often have folders that I don\u2019t want to ever backup, like temp and cache directories.<\/p>\n
Finally, you cannot backup to tape using Windows Server Backup. I\u2019m not really affected by this since I\u2019ve been using disk-to-disk solutions for quite a while now. I can see how this caveat may mess with some admin\u2019s backup strategy, especially those used to keeping long term tape archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Windows 2008 Server Core is a minimalist installation of Windows Server 2008. It must be managed from the servers console command line or remotely via Terminal Services.<\/p>\n
In previous versions of Windows Server, NTbackup.exe was the program used for creating system backups. NTbackup.exe has been phased out and has been replaced in Windows 2008 by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5164,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163\/revisions\/5164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}