System Administration: Backup and Recovery

Learn how to back up the two most popular operating systems—Windows and Linux—using free utilities as well as third-party and cloud-based solutions.

Introduction

• Take charge of your network backup and recovery

1. Backup Types and Solutions

• Overview of backup solutions
• The full backup
• Incremental backups
• Differential backups
• Copy backups
• Daily backups

2. Storage for Backup

• Using internal storage for backup
• SAN storage for backup
• DVD storage for backup
• Network share backup option
• Cloud storage backup options
• NAS backup options
• Storage Replica feature
• Backup security

3. Windows Backup

• Install and overview of Windows Server Backup
• Use Windows 11 Client backups
• Schedule Windows backups
• Volume Shadow Service for backups
• Restore files from a Windows backup
• Bare metal restoration using Windows backup
• System state backups
• Restore authoritative Windows Active Directory database

4. Linux Backup

• Duplicity
• Borg
• Rsync

5. Commercial Backup Products

• Veeam Backup
• Backup Exec
• Arcserve
• Commvault
• Backup deduplication with Backup Exec
• Connect Cloud Storage to Veeam backup
• Complete restoration of a third-party backup program on a Windows server
• Convert backup to a virtual machine with Backup Exec
• Third-party backup of a Linux server with Backup Exec

6. Cloud Backup

• Backup using Azure
• Backup using Amazon Web Services
• Microsoft Azure Backup Server