Windows Server Backup

Server administrators face a variety of Windows backup options for protecting backup servers but often struggle to find a solution that offers the level of simple management, advanced scheduling, and storage device accessibility that they require for their backup plans.

Windows Server Backup solutions are designed to back up servers and quickly recover all your business data including individual files, applications, virtual environments, or your entire system including your OS – all centrally managed, with maximum flexibility for administrators.

NovaStor offers a comprehensive all-inclusive solution:

Physical server backup software protects applications, files/folders, system files, etc.
Protect VMs running in Hyper-V on your Windows Server
Perform image-level backups (system image) with bare metal recovery
Built-in P2V
Restore to dissimilar hardware
Granular level recovery for VM and Image Backups
Virtual server backup and recovery: image and file-level backup
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With several options to choose from for Windows backup for servers, our backup experts provide you with a free consultation to help you find the right backup Windows server data protection solution for your specific IT infrastructure and business needs.

Complete Windows backup software for server environments

Your Windows backup servers are the lifeblood of your organization, storing critical data and applications on physical, virtual and cloud environments. Defend them with an all-inclusive server back up solution that allows you to store backups on the storage backup location of your choosing: SAN, NAS, tape, tape libraries with autoloader support, disk, NovaStor-hosted cloud, or any private or public cloud such as Azure, AWS or Google.

With potentially hundreds of users per server, there will come a time when someone accidentally deletes files, or urgently needs to recover an older, previous versions of a file from your file history. With granular recovery, you can use your system backup image to recover just the files you need - saving you time and money.

System Admins can manage all systems from a central control panel with unique user rights and access privileges from a single central management console.

NovaStor's Windows server data protection solution allows you to run application-aware backups on your mission-critical applications to ensure full data integrity. NovaStor utilizes Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) to capture the application state while backups are in process to ensure application consistency. When disaster strikes, it’s essential to get back up and running with minimal downtime, and our backup solutions for Windows allow you to do just that.

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Can you backup open files?

Yes, our Windows backup software utilizes Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) to perform backups of open files on the machines NovaStor products are installed on.

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What Windows operating systems do you support?

Operating systems supported for Windows server backup restore:

Windows Server 2019, 2016, 2012 R2, 2012, SBS 2011, and 2008

Windows 10, 8.x, 7

For a complete list of supported operating systems, check out our system requirements documents.

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What compression rate can I expect?

Typical compression for Windows backup job is 1.5:1 assuming data can be compressed, or about the same you would see by zipping up a file or folder.

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Do you need data deduplication?

NovaStor DataCenter can make use of the deduplication feature that is available in Windows Server 2012 R2 and newer.

For more information, view this Micosoft article on data deduplication.

The space savings that you can gain from Data Deduplication depend on the dataset or workload on the volume. Datasets that have high duplication could see optimization rates of up to 95%, or a 20x reduction in storage utilization. The following table highlights typical deduplication savings for various content types:

Scenario	Content	Typical space savings
User documents	Office documents, photos, music, videos, etc.	30-50%
Deployment shares	Software binaries, cab files, symbols, etc.	70-80%
Virtualization libraries	ISOs, virtual hard disk files, etc.	80-95%
General file share	All the above	50-60%

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Can I backup to the cloud

Yes, NovaStor offers Windows server cloud backup by integrating directly with Amazon S3, but we can also target cloud storage locations on your computer and offer a NovaStor hosted cloud storage option.

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Is bare metal restore possible for Windows and Linux?

Yes. You can create a system image with our backup solutions for Windows and Linux environments. Our solution is integrated with Relax-and-Recover (ReaR) capability, allowing for bare metal restores. Our storage agnostic imaging offers complete system restores to different hardware.

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Can you do bare metal image-based backups?

Yes, all NovaStor's backup server solutions include Windows server image backup and are able to perform bare metal image-based backups.

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More Windows Server Backup Features

Web-based Interface
Simple, modern, intuitive interface

Auditable Reporting
Gain corporate-wide visibility

Multistreaming
Reduce your backup windows

Deduplication
Reduce the size of your backups

Granular Restore
Restore individual files and emails

Virtual Machines
Backup and Replicate VMs

Bare Metal Recovery
Restore entire system

Logical Cloning
Make copies of backups