LAB 8

CONFIGURING AND
MANAGING BACKUPS

THIS LAB CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING EXERCISES AND ACTIVITIES:

Exercise 8.1 Installing Windows Server Backup

Exercise 8.2 Performing a Manual Backup of a Local Volume to a Remote Share

Exercise 8.3 Backing up the System State

Exercise 8.4 Managing VSS Settings

Exercise 8.5 Enabling Shadow Copies for Shared Volumes

Lab Challenge Using Hyper-V Snapshots

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

The lab environment consists of student workstations connected to a local area network, along
with a server that functions as the domain controller for a domain called contoso.com. The
computers required for this lab are listed in Table 8-1.

Table 8-1
Computers required for Lab 8
Computer Operating System Computer Name
Server (VM 1) Windows Server 2012 R2 RWDC01
Server (VM 2) Windows Server 2012 R2 Server01
Server (VM 3) Windows Server 2012 R2 Server02
 Server (VM 4) Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage01

In addition to the computers, you will also require the software listed in Table 8-2 to complete
Lab 8.

Table 8-2
Software required for Lab 8
Software Location
Lab 8 student worksheet Lab08_worksheet.docx (provided by instructor)

Working with Lab Worksheets

Each lab in this manual requires that you answer questions, shoot screen shots, and perform
other activities that you will document in a worksheet named for the lab, such as
Lab08_worksheet.docx. You will find these worksheets on the book companion site. It is
recommended that you use a USB flash drive to store your worksheets, so you can submit
them to your instructor for review. As you perform the exercises in each lab, open the
appropriate worksheet file, fill in the required information, and save the file to your flash
drive.

After completing this lab, you will be able to:

• Install Windows Server Backup

• Perform a manual backup of a local volume to a remote share

• Back up files and the system state using Windows Server Backup

• Manage VSS settings using VSSAdmin

• Enable shadow copies for shared volumes

• Use Hyper-V snapshots

Estimated lab time: 90 minutes

Exercise 8.1 Installing Windows Server Backup

Overview In this exercise, you will install the Windows Server Backup
feature, which will be used in the following exercises.

Mindset What is the best method for data recovery?

Completion time 10 minutes
 1. Log into Server02 as contoso\administrator with the password of Pa$$w0rd.

2. In Server Manager, click Manage > Add Roles and Features.

3. In the Add Roles and Features Wizard, click Next.

4. On the Select installation type page, click Next.

5. On the Select destination server page, click Server02.contoso.com and then click Next.

6. On the Select server roles screen, click Next .

7. Select Windows Server Backup and then click Next.

8. On the Confirm installation selections page, click Install.

9. When the installation is complete, click Close.

End of exercise. Leave Server Manager open.

Performing a Manual Backup of Local Folders to

Exercise 8.2 a Remote Share
Overview In this exercise, you will back up a data folder using Windows
Server Backup

Mindset How often should you backup a data folder that contains user
data files?
Completion time 15 minutes

1. Log into Storage01 as contoso\administrator with the password of Pa$$w0rd.

2. Open the File Explorer icon on the task bar.

3. Navigate to Local Disk (C:) and create a C:\BAK folder.

4. Right-click the BAK folder and choose Properties.

5. In the Properties dialog box, click the Sharing tab.

6. Click the Advanced Sharing button.

7. In the Advanced Sharing dialog box, click to select the Share this folder option.

8. Click the Permissions button.

 9. In the Permissions dialog box, with Everyone already selected, click the Allow Change
box.

10. Click OK to close the Permissions dialog box.

11. Click OK to close the Advanced Sharing dialog box.

12. Click Close to close the BAK Properties dialog box.

13. In File Explorer, create folders named C:\BAK\BAK1 and C:\BAK\BAK2.

13. On Server02, using Server Manager, click Tools > Windows Server Backup.

14. In the wbadmin window, click Local Backup (see Figure 8-1).

Figure 8-1
Opening Windows Server Backup

15. In the Actions panel, click Backup Once .

16. When prompted to select a Backup option, click Different Options and then click Next.

17. For the backup configuration, click Custom and then click Next.

18. On the Select Items for Backup page, click Add Items and then expand the C drive.
Click to select the Users folder and the ProgramData folder (as shown in Figure 8-2)
and then click OK.
Figure 8-2
Selecting items to back up

What is the ProgramData folder used for?

Question
1 It stores data from different applications for standard users
and it does not need special permissions

19. Click Next to continue.

20. On the Specify Destination Type page, click the Remote shared folder and then click
Next.

21. On the Specify Remote Folder dialog box, type the location \\storage01\BAK\BAK1 and
then click Next.

22. On the Confirmation page, click Backup.

23. When the backup is complete, take a screen shot of wbadmin window by pressing Alt+Prt
Scr and then paste it into your Lab 8 worksheet file in the page provided by pressing
Ctrl+V.

24. Click Close.

End of exercise. Leave Wbadmin open for the next exercise.

Exercise 8.3 Backing Up the System State
Overview In this exercise, you will back up the system state of a server.

Mindset Why is it important to back up the system state?

Completion time 20 minutes

1. On Server02, using Wbadmin, from the Actions pane, click Backup Once.

2. When prompted to select a Backup option, click Different Options and then click Next.

3. For the backup configuration, click Custom and then click Next.

4. On the Select Items dialog box, click Add Items and then select Bare metal recovery.

Which items were selected when you selected Bare metal

recovery?
Question
2 Bare Metal Recovery, System State, Local Disk C:, System
Reserved

5. Click to deselect Bare metal recovery, System Reserved drive, and Local Disk (C:).
Click OK.

6. Click Next.

7. On the Specify Destination Type page, click Remote shared folder for the storage
location and then click Next.

8. On the Specify Remote Folder dialog box, type the location \\storage01\BAK\BAK2 and
then click Next .

9. Confirm the settings and then click Backup.

10. When the backup is complete, take a screen shot of the Backup Once Wizard by pressing
Alt+Prt Scr and then paste it into your Lab 8 worksheet file in the page provided by
pressing Ctrl+V.

11. Click Close.

12. Close Wbadmin.

End of exercise. Close any open windows before you begin the next exercise.
Exercise 8.4 Managing VSS Settings
Overview In this exercise, you will use VSSAdmin to manage VSS,
including identifying VSS writer and VSS provider.

Mindset What advantage does VSS provide when you are performing
backups?
Completion time 10 minutes

1. On Server02, right-click the Start menu and choose Command Prompt (Admin).

2. In the Administrator: Command Prompt dialog box, execute the following command to
see a list of commands supported with vssadmin:

vssadmin /?

3. Execute the following command to see a list of VSS writers on Server02 and their current
state:

vssadmin list writers

How many VSS writers do you have?

Question
3 10

4. Execute the following command to see a list of VSS providers on Server02:

vssadmin list providers

What are the VSS providers?

Hyper-V IC Software
Question
4 Microsoft File Share

Microsoft Software

5. Execute the following command to see a list of existing volume shadow copies:

vssadmin list shadows

Question How many shadows did you have?'

 5 None

7. To list the volumes that are eligible for shadow copies, execute the following command:

vssadmin list volumes

8. To view used, allocated, and maximum shadow copy storage space, execute the following
command:

vssadmin list shadowstorage

9. Take a screen shot of the Command Prompt window by pressing Alt+Prt Scr and then
paste it into your Lab 8 worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.

10. Close the Administrator: Command Prompt window.

End of exercise. Close any open windows before you begin the next exercise.

Exercise 8.5 Enabling Shadow Copies for Shared Volumes

Overview In this exercise, you will enable and configure shadow copies to
automatically back up shared folders. `

Mindset What does Shadow Copies allow you to do?

Completion time 15 minutes

1. Log into Server01 as contoso\administrator with the password of Pa$$w0rd.

2. Using File Explorer, create a folder named C:\CorpDocs.

3. Share the C:\CorpDocs folder. Configure it so that Everyone has Allow Change share
permission.

4. Open the C:\CorpDocs folder.

5. Create a text file in the CorpDocs folder named Agenda.txt, type your name in the
Agenda.txt file, and then save and close the text file.

6. On Server01, using Server Manager, click Tools > Computer Management.

7. In Computer Management, expand the Storage node and then click Disk Management.

8. Right-click C drive and choose Properties.

 9. Select the Shadow Copies tab.

10. Click to select the C:\ drive (as shown in Figure 8-3) and then click Enable.

Figure 8-3
Configuring shadow copies

11. In the Enable Shadow Copies dialog box, click Yes to confirm you want to enable
shadow copies on the volume.

12. Take a screen shot of the Properties window by pressing Alt+Prt Scr and then paste it into
your Lab 8 worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.

13. Click Create Now to create a second snapshot of the selected volume.

14. Click Settings.

15. In the Settings dialog box, click Schedule.

Question How often are shadow copies created and at what time?
 6
Weekly, 7:00 AM

16. Click OK to close the C:\ dialog box.

17. Click OK to close the Settings dialog box.

18. Click OK to close the Local Disk (C:) Properties dialog box.

19. Close Computer Management.

End of exercise. Close any open windows before you begin the next exercise.

LAB REVIEW QUESTIONS

Completion time 10 minutes

1. In Exercise 8.1, is Windows Server Backup a role or is it a feature?

Feature

2. In Exercise 8.3, which Windows PowerShell command is used to list VSS writers?

vssadmin list writers

3. In Exercise 8.3, which command is used to list the shadow copies?

vssadmin list shadows

4. In Exercise 8.4, where are the shadow copies enabled for a shared folder?

Properties tab on the C:\ Disk in Computer Management

Lab
Challenge Using Hyper-V Snapshots
Overview To complete this challenge, you will describe how to create Hyper-
V snapshots.

Mindset You are ready to perform a major upgrade to a critical application

on Server01. You need to make sure that you can undo the changes
 if the upgrade does not go well. What should you do?
Completion time 10 minutes

Write out the steps you performed to complete the challenge.

End of lab. You can log off or start a different lab. If you want to restart this lab, you’ll need to
click the End Lab button in order for the lab to be reset.