Performing a system restore

You won't ever want to do it, but something can happen to your hard drive and you'll find a need to restore it. The Windows Server Backup console also provides a means to restore any backups you've created by using it. The following steps tell you how to perform this task:

1. Click Recover.
   You see the Recovery Wizard. The Getting Started dialog box asks you to choose a source of data for the recovery. The default is to recover data from the current server. However, you can also choose a remote location. If you choose a remote location, you need to provide additional information about where to find the data.
2. Choose a backup source and click Next.
   If you've chosen a remote data source, you need to provide the remote location information. Otherwise, proceed to the next step, where you see the Select Backup Date dialog box, and choose the backup date and time you want to use:
   • Click Next.
     The Recovery Wizard asks you to choose a location type. You can obtain data from a local drive or from a remote shared drive.
   • Choose a location type and click Next.
     The wizard displays either a Specify Remote Folder dialog box or a Select Backup Destination dialog box, depending on your choice of location type. In both cases, you must provide the source of the backup.
   • Provide the backup source information and click Next.
3. Select a backup date on the calendar and then choose a backup time on that date. Click Next.
   The Select Recovery Type dialog box asks you to choose what you want to restore. You can restore individual files and folders, entire applications, or the volume as a whole.
4. Select a recovery type and click Next.
   The steps you follow at this point depend on the kind of recovery you chose. For example, if you choose to recover individual files and folders, you need to choose which files and folders to recover. Likewise, you need to choose applications for an application recovery or entire volumes for a volume recovery. Eventually, you see a confirmation dialog box, where you see the results of your choices. The files and folders recovery presents an advantage in that you can recover the data to a different location from the original location.
5. Verify the options you've selected and click Recover.
   The Recovery Wizard shows you the progress of the restore.
6. Click Close when the recovery process completes.
   You find the files you restored in the expected locations.