Lab 10 Disaster Recovery Plan
Note: We are using Virtual Machines for this class. As such a full backup to a separate disk is not necessary. However, we are going to practice doing this as we would with a physical machine.
Steps to Complete
Add a disk equal to your virtual machine equal in size to the C: drive. Do this with your virtual machine off!
- Boot your machine back up.
- Follow the steps below in Powershell
1 Add-WindowsFeature -Name Windows-Server-Backup
2
3 $policy = New-WBPolicy
4 Add-WBSystemState -Policy $policy
5 $volumes = Get-WBVolume -CriticalVolumes
6 Add-WBVolume -Policy $policy -Volume $volumes
7 $disks = Get-WBDisk
8 #You can view $disks to see which one can be used as a backup disk. It should be "Disk 1" (disk 0 is your C: drive)
9 $target = New-WBBackupTarget -Disk $disks[1]
10 Add-WBBackupTarget -Policy $policy -Target $target
11 Set-WBSchedule -Policy $policy -Schedule "03:00" # do set your different to be between 1 and 3 AM.
12 Set-WBPolicy -Policy $policy # answer yes to format the drive.
In your documentation wiki create a new page called "Disaster Recovery Plan".
- Document your backup strategy. E.g. list the things that are being backed up, where they are being backed up to and when.
Video Grade Guide
Topics |
Points |
Talk me through your documentation |
20 |
Run: PS> Get-WBPolicy |
80 |