
Amoie backup scheduler windows#
If you are not aware of Task Scheduler, it is a a management application provided in Windows operating systems that allows you to schedule any task for a given set of conditions. You can extend the functionality of Windows Server Backup to meet all these advanced needs through simple scripts that uses Windows Server Backup Command Line Tool ( For example, you may want to backup your files every day, while backing up the system state at lesser frequency say once a week. While this is good and recommended there may be reasons specific to your environment where you may want to take backups at a lesser frequency or have multiple backup schedules (e.g. To consolidate protection across multiple servers or applications like SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint or Hyper-V, then Microsoft would recommend looking at System Center Data Protection Manager (īy design, WSB ensures that you have recent backups by performing its local backup operations at least once per day. WSB protects the files and the server os/application binaries within itself as a single-server solution. Windows Server Backup (WSB) is the built-in backup solution for Windows Server 2008 that replaces the venerable NT Backup from Windows Server 2003 and before.


First published on TECHNET on Apr 13, 2009Ĭustomizing Windows Server Backup Schedule
