Questions tagged [wbadmin]

I want to test backups after completion by confirming that I can recover a sentinel file. We all know that a frequent backup, and later storage, copy in a different environment provides extra security. For that purpose, our backup storage server,…

One of my customers has a Windows Server 2016 and uses wbadmin to do some bare metal recovery backup to some Synology NAS using SMB. This worked in the past, where "past" is some unspecified weeks/months back in time for various reasons, and doesn't…

I did a system image backup of my Windows 10 machine using a combination of wbadmin and Bareos. I wanted test restoring it, so I restored the wbadmin image files from the BareOS server to an external hdd; which restored to…

I am under the impression that the automatic space managment for scheduled backups in Windows Server Backup (2012R2) does not delete backup sets created with "backup once". Is this impression correct?