TeraByte Unlimited

Thanks for reading,

I have a hosted dedicated server running Windows Server 2016

No doubt IFW does a good job in backing up a full partition namely the Boot drive / C drive.

My questions (2) relate to Restore.

1)
If I do a full Drive back to a networked located, given I do not have Physical access to the server to boot from a USB for example, how would I restore that original backup ?

Would I do an initial install of Windows using the hosting control panel giving me a raw windows server, then install some sort of IFW app, that then would restore from the networked location and thus fully restore the server to original state ? Or ?

2)
More or less in keeping with the above question, could I then do the same thing on a new server to fully restore that original back from the other server on that new server, achieving a full clone of the original machine ?

Cheers

You typically create boot media with the network supported needed (Linux or Windows boot disk). Test booting it and that you can access the image (validate for example).

Thank you for the reply.

When you say "boot media" can you elaborate please.