Sep 25 2008
Windows Server Backup 2008: NTBackup done right?
The Past…
I remember the good all Windows 95 / 98 times installed over FAT partitions. Back-up was fairly simple at that time. All you needed to do was to install a fresh system with the OS, drivers and required applications. When satisfied with the results, just start your PC in DOS mode and use any command line archiving utility to back-up your Windows and Program Files folders. My archive had only 150MB at that time…
If anything went wrong, you would just start your PC in DOS mode, delete the Windows & Program Files directory and unpack your backup (could even be a self extract file) and… taaadaa! Up and running.
Since the introduction of NT (BTW: NT are the initials for New Technology) systems and NTFS (New Technology File System 
) a utility was bundled with the OS named NTBackup (ntbackup.exe) which could be used to backup your file system (the whole or portions of it). The application was actually designed by Veritas (ring any bells?) The only downside of NTBackup was that initially it supported only tape drives as backup media, and neither of us had a minimum 2k$ to spend for a DLT tape drive unit.
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