Your network consists of a single Active Directory domain. The domain controllers run Windows
Server 2008 R2. Your company’s enterprise security policy states that the domain controllers cannot
contain optical drives. You need to recommend a backup and recovery plan that restores the domain
controllers in the event of a catastrophic server failure. What should you recommend?
A.
Use Windows Server Backup to back up each domain controller to a local disk. Create a Windows
Recovery Environment (Windows RE) partition on each domain controller.
B.
Use Windows Server Backup to back up each domain controller to a local disk. Use Windows
Deployment Services (WDS) to deploy the Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE).
C.
Use Windows Server Backup to back up each domain controller to a remote network share. Create
a Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) partition on each domain controller.
D.
Use Windows Server Backup to back up each domain controller to a remote network share. Use
Windows Deployment Services (WDS) to deploy the Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE).
Explanation:
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Special considerations
You must be a member of the Administrators group or Backup Operators group to use Windows
Server Backup.
In Windows Server 2008, the firewall has been enabled by default. If you are managing the backups
of another computer using the Windows Server Backup snap-in, your connectivity to the remote
computer may be affected and can be resolved by changes in the firewall rules.
While working on the local computer, you are not affected.
Also, if you are a current user of the previous backup feature (Ntbackup.exe) that shipped in earlier
versions of Windows, and plan to switch to the new Windows Server Backup, you might be affected
by the following issues and changes:
Settings for creating backups will not be upgraded when you upgrade to Windows Server
2008. You will need to reconfigure settings.
You will need a separate, dedicated disk for running scheduled backups.
Only NTFS-formatted volumes on a locally attached disk can be backed up.
You can no longer back up to tape. (However, support of tape storage drivers is still included in
Windows Server 2008.) Windows Server Backup supports backing up to external and internal disks,
DVDs, and shared folders.
You cannot recover backups that you created with Ntbackup.exe by using Windows Server
Backup. However, a version of Ntbackup.exe is available as a download to Windows Server
2008 for users who want to recover data from backups created using Ntbackup.exe. The
downloadable version of Ntbackup.exe is only for recovering backups for older versions ofWindows and cannot be used to create new backups in Windows Server 2008.
Windows Server 2008 R2 including:
The ability to backup System State as a separate job as well as the ability to do incremental System
State backups.
The ability to exclude specific file types, file folders, and specific files instead of having to backup an
entire volume.
The ability to backup to a volume or a network share instead of requiring a dedicated disk for
backups.
Windows Recovery Technical Reference
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) is an extensible recovery platform based on
Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE). When the computer fails to start, Windows
automatically fails over into this environment, and the Startup Repair tool in Windows RE automates
the diagnosis and repair of an unbootable Windows Vista installation. Furthermore, Windows RE is a
starting point for various tools for manual system recovery. The primary audience of this technology
includes original equipment manufacturers
(OEMs), original device manufacturers (ODMs), and corporate IT professionals.
Image-based Recovery from Windows RE
In the event that the Windows installation cannot be repaired with Startup Repair or other manual
repair steps, Windows RE can be used to launch an image-based recovery tool.
User-created Recovery Image
Windows Vista provides end users with the ability to create a backup image of their entire operating
system.
End users can do this by using the Backup tool. The system image can be stored on an external hard
disk, on a hard disk partition other than those imaged, or on a DVD. To restore the computer by
using this system image, users must launch the restore interface from the list of Windows RE manual
tools.
Factory-created Recovery Image
To facilitate restoring a computer to its factory state, a recovery image can be placed on the
Windows RE partition. This eliminates the need for a separate recovery media in most cases.
If the Windows image format is used in the manufacturing process, the same operating system
image can be used for recovery as well. A computer manufacturer can develop an application by
using the Imaging APIs for Windows and the Windows image to restore the operating system
volume. This application can be launched from the Windows RE user interface (UI) by using
customizations provided by the ODM.