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Frequent backup protects Server data from accidental loss, such as Server's hardware or storage media failure. Backup your Windows Server 2003 so that you can easily restore the data when your hard disk has been erased or overwritten, or become inaccessible for a hard disk malfunction.
This article will explain how to protect your Server 2003 from losing data using differential backup. The Server differential backup software the document recommends also applies to Windows Server 2000, 2008.
There are three backup methods to backup your Server, each of them has advantages and drawbacks. Differential backup is a moderate method among these three.
Backup all data you select. It has an independent recovery. Its backup and recovery process takes longer than incremental backup and differential backup, but it's the safest backup and recovery method.
An incremental backup refers to a backup that includes just the changes made since the most recent backup of any type. It eliminates the need to store duplicate copies of unchanged data. An incremental backup links with the last backup before it. To restore an incremental backup requires retrieving the volumes of all backup sessions made before it, up to and including the full backup that started the chain. The longer the backup chain, the more time it will take to restore. But incremental backup has the fastest backup process.
A differential backup copies files that have been created or changed since the last full backup. Its recovery process requires only the latest full backup and the differential backup of one specific time point you want to restore. Its backup process is faster than full backup, and recovery process is faster than incremental backup.
Note: All the instructions below are developed by using the Start menu that appears by default when you install Server 2003. If you have modified your Start menu, the steps might differ slightly.
1. Click Start, click Run, type ntbackup, and then click OK. The Backup or Restore Wizard will appear.
2. Click Next to perform this procedure using the wizard.
3. On the Backup or Restore wizard page, Select Back up files and settings and click Next.
4. Choose what to backup. Click All information on this computer and click Next.
5. Choose a storage path and type a name for the backup task click Next.
6. Confirm your backup task and click Finish to perform backup or click Advanced to specify additional backup options.
7. Select Differential for the type of backup and click Next.
8. Click Verify data after backup to verify the backup integrity which helps ensure that the backup is successful.
9. Select Append this backup to the existing backups or Replace the existing backups and click Next.
10. To run backup now or set backup schedule. Click Now and click Next.
11. Click finish.
Windows built-in tool can only backup system or files. It can't backup partitions.
EaseUS Todo Backup Server provides incremental backup, differential backup solution for both file differential backup, disk and partition differential backup.
You can one-click to backup your Server system, backup specific file, folders and partitions through all your hard disks. You can backup Server to CD/DVD, network, tape or on your local hard disk. You can also set backup schedule to do continuous backup for your Server.
Detailed Server backup steps refer to:
How to do file, disk and partition differential backup?
How to do one-click system backup?
EaseUS also provides EaseUS Todo Backup Advanced Server to differential backup Exchange Server 2003, you can free download to have a try first.
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