File-level recovery operations based on Windows Server 2003 shadow copies _win server

Recently because of the busy work, plus the end of many projects, there is no time to write Bo, today a friend asked about the Windows 2003 shadow copies of the function, said that only a full disk restore, from itself, when we look at the disk properties of the time, this and Windows 2008 R2, Windows R2 different, in the Windows 2008 R2 we can restore the file directly in the disk properties, in fact, under Windows 2003 can also achieve file-level recovery, let's say the operation process:

For file-level recovery in Windows 2003 shadow copies, you may not have Windows R2 so simple, you need to install a client software, you can download to the following address, and then restore operation;

Download Address: https://technet.microsoft.com/zh-cn/windowsserver/bb405951.aspx

First, install the client tool:

Open the directory you want to restore in a shared way

Right-click on the margin to select Properties, click "View", note that there are three options:

Restore: That is, directly restore the directory to the original folder (carefully used to avoid overwriting other modified documents);

Replication: That is, processing to other locations;

View: See the corresponding directory of files and then select the file to choose to copy it;

Third, the data recovery

At this point, we can see that the sharing opened by clicking "View" will have a time item, that is, the time we choose to recover;

After opening the snapshot copy, we can select the data to be recovered according to our own requirements;

Note: As a result of server performance and other reasons, in the recovery, if there is a path error or file occupancy, and so on, restart the file server and then restore it;

Small secret: The snapshot restores the client program installs has the user side, also may realize the data restores, the operation way;

This is achieved based on the Windows Server 2003 shadow copy Recovery feature;

This article comes from "System Operation Dimension" Systemdevops "" blog