CREATING AND RUNNING AN UNATTENDED BACKUP JOB

3. What two pieces of information do you have to supply to the Automated SystemRecovery Wizard?

Lesson Summary

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The Automated System Recovery Wizard creates a system recover disk (on afloppy disk) that contains your hard drive configuration, and a backup of yourlocal system partition on tape or as a file.

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To start the Automated System Recovery Wizard, you must enable the Advancedmode of the Backup Utility. Because the Automated System Recovery Wizardincludes a full backup, the process can take an hour or longer.

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The system and software files are stored in %systemroot%\System32\config. Abackup copy is stored in the %systemroot%\repair folder, and this backup isrefreshed each time you back up the System State data on the computer. You canuse the Recovery Console to replace the current version of each file with thebacked up copy.

Case Scenario Exercise

In this exercise, you will read a scenario about backing up a user’s computer and thenanswer the questions that follow. If you have difficulty completing this work, reviewthe material in this chapter before beginning the next chapter. You can find answers tothese questions in the “Questions and Answers” section at the end of this chapter.

Scenario

You are an administrator working for a company named Blue Yonder Airlines, a com-pany that rents charter airplanes to businesses across the country. You are working ona computer that belongs to Andrew, a user in the sales department. Like other employ-ees in the department, Andrew saves all his documents to his local computer in the MyDocuments folder. Andrew keeps a relatively small number of files on his computer—about 225 MB. However, each user must back up data to a file server on the networkif they want their documents to be included in the company’s backup system. Yourtask today is to configure a nightly backup solution for Andrew.