Specifies a path to the folder you’ve created in Step 1. WBADMIN START BACKUP -backupTarget:storage -allCritical -user:username -password:password -quiet

It’s very simple: one line with parameters for WBADMIN utility. In our case, we use the network share folder. Choose interim storage and create a folder for your backup files. Below is the step by step guide for Windows 7 backup for bare-metal restore. Backup logic will be the same as with Windows Server 2008R2: local backup followed by cloud backup. Second, you will need to manually create a backup script for bare-metal restore (see the example later in the post). System backup for Windows 7, 8 and Windows Server 2008 operating systems can be done similarly but with some restrictions and manual actions.įirst, system state backup is not available for Windows 7 and Windows 8, only whole system backup with all the files and user data can be done. When system backup is finished, MSP360 Backup takes data to the cloud. That’s why MSP360 software for Windows Server backup initiates native Windows backup for system state and bare-metal restore points OS to the on-premise storage location. When choosing an interim storage location, it’s important to understand that actual backup is performed by an operation system that can’t do cloud backup. As interim storage, you can use logical drive or network share.

While using MSP360 Backup with Windows Server 2008 R2 for system state backup or bare metal restore you need to specify the interim storage location for the software to put backup files that will then be uploaded to the cloud. Users of Windows 7, 8 or Windows Server 2008 (excluding R2) should take some extra actions to perform whole system cloud backup with MSP360 Backup to be able to do a bare-metal restore.

Windows 7 backup command line