How Do You Restore Previous Backups On A Windows Server 2008 Computer?

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Microsoft has changed the backup tool in Windows Server 2008. You can not use old Windows Backup Tool (NTBackup.exe) to take backup. You need to use Windows New backup tool to backup anything on Windows Server 2008 computers and also you can not restore the previous backups created by NTBackup.exe on Windows Server 2008.

Microsoft developers have designed a new version of NTBackup to restore the previous backups created by NTBackup.exe running on previous versions of Windows.

You can download the tool at the below URL:

Utility for restoring backups made on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 to computers running Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7da725e2-8b69-4c65-afa3-2a53107d54a7&DisplayLang=en

About The Author

Nirmal Sharma is a MCSEx3, MCITP and was awarded the Microsoft MVP award in Directory Services and Windows Networking. He specializes in Microsoft Azure, Office 365, Directory Services, Failover Clusters, Hyper-V, PowerShell Scripting and System Center products. Nirmal has been involved with Microsoft Technologies since 1994. In his spare time, he likes to help others and share some of his knowledge by writing tips and articles on various sites.

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