Restoring from the installer disc

Recovery from the console inside Windows is a nice wizard-driven experience, but what about in the case where your server has crashed hard? If you cannot get into Windows on your server, you cannot run the Windows Server Backup console in order to initiate your recovery process. In this case, we can still utilize our backup file that has been created, but we need to use it in combination with a Windows Server 2019 installation disc, from which we can invoke the recovery process.

It is important to note that this recovery process cannot access locations on the network, and your backup file will have to be stored on a disk attached to your server. You can utilize a USB drive for this purpose during the recovery ...

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