Backup Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 | Windows 2008 R2 Server backup software.

Best Server Backup Software for Windows Server 2008/2008 R2

The built-in tool of backup Windows Server 2008

Backup Windows Server 2008 is quite essential to the IT administrators as data loss is quite a common problem in the field of information technology and it will cause a great loss and damage to your company. Say, if your Windows Web Server 2008, which is used as a Web application and service platform is crashed and you have not made a backup yet, the damage will go beyond your expectation. Your clients may fail to visit your site and all the information will be lost.

Reasons that may cause data loss could be various, such as hard disk crashes, virus attack, software and system crash and so on. To minimize the losses caused by this problem for your Windows Server 2008, you'd better do a backup for your Windows Server regularly.

In fact, there is a backup software snap-in Windows Server 2008. With it, you can do regular backup for the Windows Server 2008. As we all know, NTBACKUP is a system backup software which is replaced by Windows Server Backup in Windows Server 2008. Some administrators think Windows Server backup is not so easy to use as NTBACKUP because it will take a long time to backup and restore the whole system. However, a snapshot tool was added into Windows Server 2008. This tool can help you backup and restore system state in a quick way.

What should Windows Server backup software be:

Windows Server backup software takes diverse backup and restore features as the top respects that phase out other server backup utilities.

1. Multiple backup and restore objectives

Most Windows Server backup software can always back up and restore system state, partition(s), hard drives and files and folders.

2. Diverse backup types

They are full backup, differential backup, incremental backup and schedule backup (also known as automatic backup).

3. Easier way to upgrade server hard drive or transfer server data

This function can save your time and energy to do mannual copy or reinstall Operating System for upgrading hard disk. Disk clone provided by some quality server is considered to be a more efficient way than backing up all and restoring them to the destination hard drive.

4. No backup data limitation

Like online backup, there is high probability of backup data limitation. Windows Server backup software requires nothing in the respect of data capacity.

5. Sorts of working environment support

Quality Windows Server backup software not only supports Windows Server 2008/2003/2000 and Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 but also can operate on the WinPE based bootable disk or under the Pre-OS recovery environment.

6. Other featured functions

Excellent Windows Server backup software always provides more featured functions, such as recover to dissimilar hardware, partition wipe, mount/unmount image, and so on.

EaseUS Todo Backup Server - backup what you want

EaseUS Todo Backup released by EaseUS, has been one of the most popular backup utility among so many backup software. It includes all practical functions to back up the system partition or the entire hard disk to image or copy the disk to upgrade hard disk drive in your PC or Windows Servers with Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 both 32 bit and 64 bit being supported.

Windows 2008 Server backup software

Tutorial to backup Windows Server 2008 system state

Tutorial to backup Windows Server 2008 disk/partition.

If you have a need to do Exchange Server backup and SQL Server backup, there is a Advanced Server Edition that you can do Windows Server backup, Exchange and SQL Server backup.