Restoring a Windows Server Backup to a Different Server
Something that is not very well documented is the process of recovering a backup created on one server to a different one using Windows Server Backup. When you browse a disk that was part of a scheduled backup the contents are protected by the security settings on the file system. We recently had to recover some files that were on a 2 TB hard drive that was part of a scheduled backup on a Server 2008 R2 system that had been subsequently virtualized and was running under Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V. Attaching the disk to the VM was not an option and the WSB utility in Server 2012 wouldn’t recognize any backups on the hard drive.
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