I’ve been a big fan of Windows Terminal since the very beginning. In fact, I’ve been using it for so long that I’ve been moving along profile settings that have long since changed. I didn’t bother to update my settings. Part of the challenge is that the app will update in the background and I…
Tag: Backup
Managing My PowerShell Backup Files
Last month I started a project to begin backing up critical folders. This backup process is nothing more than another restore option should I need it. Still, it has been running for over a month and I now have a number of full backup files. I don’t need to keep all of them. If I…
Creating a PowerShell Backup System – Part 4
We’re almost to the end of my PowerShell backup system. Last time I showed you how I handle my daily incremental backups. Today I figured I should circle back and go over how I handle weekly full backups. Remember, I am only concerned about backing up a handful of critical folders. I’ve saved that list…
Creating a PowerShell Backup System – Part 3
Let’s continue exploring my PowerShell based backup system. If you are just jumping in, be sure to read part 1 and part 2 first. At the end of the previous article I have set up a scheduled job that is logging changed files in key folders to CSV files. The next order of business is…
Creating a PowerShell Backup System Part 2
Yesterday I began a series of articles documenting my PowerShell based backup system. The core of my system is using the System.IO.FileSystemWatcher as a means to track daily file changes so I know what to backup. However there are some challenges. I need to watch several folders, I need to have an easy way to…
Creating a PowerShell Backup System
If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I have a monthly tweet reminder about running and testing backups. I have to say that the concept of a backup is different today than it was when I started in IT. Now we have cheap disk storage and cloud services. In some ways, our data…
InfoWorld: Automate Live VM Export
This is kinda cool, but I got published in InfoWorld, in a roundabout manner. J. Peter Bruzzese writes a column for InfoWorld on enterprise Windows. His latest column is about exporting Hyper-V virtual machines using PowerShell. In Windows Server 2012 R2 (and Windows 8.1) you can export a virtual machine even while it is running….
Easy VM Backup with Veeam Zip
If you run a small VMware or Hyper-V setup, perhaps for a lab or personal training, you probably haven’t thought to much about backing up your virtual machines. But it is actually pretty easy and doesn’t cost anything. Let me give you a quick intro to the free backup tool from Veeam. The first thing…
Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse
I got this announcement the other day for a Halloween webinar and the title is just too cool not to share: “Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse: Protecting Both Your Brains and Your Data.” I hope it goes without saying that data protection is a big part of an IT Pro’s job so anything we can learn…
Get GPO Backup
The GroupPolicy module from Microsoft offers a great deal of functionality from a command line. In terms of regular maintenance or administration it is pretty hard to beat, especially if you have 100s or 1000s of GPOs. When you have such a large number, backing them up is critical and easy to accomplish with the…
WBADMIN Demo
Earlier this year I wrote an article for REDMOND Magazine about the new backup features in Windows Server 2008 R2. I’m not going to re-hash the article here except to say it includes some sample scripts on using the WBADMIN command line tool. One of the scripts is an old-school batch file. The batch file…
VMware Backup with PowerCLI and Veeam
My primary backup drive for my virtual machine backup toasted on me so I had to recreate all of my backup jobs. I’ve been using Veeam’s backup product for VMware and it couldn’t be easier to use. I’ve known that it included a set of PowerShell cmdlets but I had never really looked at them…