Running a Manual System-State Backup to Remote Storage Using Wbadmin.exe and PowerShell
Using wbadmin.exe to run backups can be tedious. To understand each of the options available for a manual backup in a command prompt window, type wbadmin.exe Start Backup /? and press Enter. For this example, the data will be stored on the remote server share \\FileServer1\CentralBackup\NLBNODE2, and we will back up the Bare Metal Recovery item, referred to as the AllCritical option. This item includes all volumes in use by the system, including volumes that contain application and share data folders and the system state. For this example, the companyabc\administrator account will be used to connect to the remote share. To run the manual backup using the preceding ...
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