So you want to restore a backup on a new Windows Server from and older version of Windows Server. Well on Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 the built in backup program was called ntbackup. In Server 2008 they come up with a new backup program call Windows Server Backup.
Windows Server Backup will not restore backups from the old ntbackup program, which makes it a little bit difficult when you want to upgrade your server because you don’t have the tool built straight into the OS to restore the old backup. Luckily the “lovely” people at Microsoft made a program very small program to restore ntbackup backups to your server. There is a different program for Server 2008 then Server 2008 R2.
For Windows Server 2008:
Download this.
You will need to install Removable Storage Management on Windows Server 2008
Open Server Manager, navigate to the Features Summary section, and click Add features.
Select the check box next to Removable Storage Manager, click Next, and then click Install.
Then just install it and run from start menu
For Windows Server 2008 R2:
In Server 2008 R2 they have removed the “Removable storage management” feature so the old utility doesn’t work for restoring the ntbackup file(which is .bkf if your wondering…) but Microsoft did release a hot-fix, and this just works you can download it from here you just need to put your details in and they email you an update file and then you apply and ntbackuprestore appears in your start menu. Just run it and restore.
Hope this helps you all š
