Posts Tagged ‘Recover System State on Windows Server 2008 in Data Protection Manager’
Restore Win 08 SystemState that was recovered by DPM 07
So you have your 2008 servers systemstate backed up by DPM 2007. Your server crashes and you need to recover. DPM 2007 does not give an option to recover to the server only to tape or a network share.

What do you from here? The answer is you have to actually restore the system state using Microsoft’s built in windows backup utility. There is another catch it has to be done via command line using WBADMIN. Here are the steps to recover a server using Windows 2008 Backup from the command line: Read the rest of this entry »

