Schedule regular backups

Logging into your servers and launching a manual backup task every day is obviously not feasible for most of our organizations, as the process of running backups would turn into our full time job. Thankfully, the Windows Server Backup feature gives us the option to create a backup schedule. This way, we can define what we want to back up, where we want to back it up to, and how often this backup should run. Then we can sit back, relax, and know that our systems are performing this task on their own.

Before we can do anything with backups, we need to install the appropriate feature inside Windows. Using your Add roles and features link, go ahead and install the feature called Windows Server Backup. Remember that I ...

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