Module 12

Implementing Business
Continuity and Disaster
Recovery
Module Overview

Data Protection Overview

Implementing Windows Server Backup
• Implementing Server and Data Recovery
Lesson 1: Data Protection Overview

Identifying Recovery Requirements

What Are Service Level Agreements?
Overview of Enterprise Data Protection
Strategies
Mitigation Strategies
• Best Practices when Implementing a Data
Protection Strategy
Identifying Recovery Requirements

Identify your data protection options by:

1. Defining organization critical resources
2. Identifying risks associated with those critical
resources
3. Identifying the time needed to complete the
recovery
4. Developing a protection strategy
What Are Service Level Agreements?

SLAs define responsibilities of the service

provider
SLA components include:
• Hours of operation
• Service availability
• RPO and RTO
• Retention objectives
• System performance
Overview of Enterprise Data Protection
Strategies
You need strategies for recovering:
• Data
• Services
• Servers
• Sites
• Offsite backups
Mitigation Strategies
Problem Mitigation strategy
The media where a copy of the Have at least two copies of your
backup data is store becomes backup data
corrupted
An administrator has accidentally Protect OUs from accidental
deleted an OU that contains many deletion, especially after
user and computer objects migrations
A server in a branch office where Use DFS Replication to replicate
important files are located has files from branch offices to central
failed data centers
The virtualization infrastructure Avoid deploying all critical servers,
where business servers are located such as domain controllers, on the
is unavailable same virtual infrastructure
A major outage in a data center Deploy a secondary data center
has occurred that will contain replicas of most of
the critical servers in your primary
data center
Best Practices when Implementing a Data
Protection Strategy
To implement a data protection strategy , you should:
• Perform a risk assessment plan
• Discuss the risks you evaluated with your business
managers, and create a data protection strategy and
disaster mitigation strategy
• Ensure that each organization has its own data
protection plan
• Document all steps that should be performed in a
recovery scenario
• Test your recovery plan on regular basis, in an isolated,
non-production environment.
• Evaluate your data protection strategy on a regular
basis, and update your data protection strategy
depending on your evaluation outcome
Lesson 2: Implementing Windows Server
Backup

What Needs to Be Backed Up?

Backup Types
Backup Technologies
Planning Backup Capacity
Planning Backup Security
What Is Windows Server Backup?
Demonstration: Configuring a Scheduled
Backup
What Is Windows Azure Backup?
Considerations for an Enterprise Backup
What Needs to Be Backed Up?

When planning your backup strategy, ensure

that you:
• Determine the critical resources
• Verify your backups
• Confirm that backups are secure
• Ensure that compliance and regulatory
responsibilities are met
Backup Types

• A full backup is a block-level replica of all

blocks on all the server’s volumes
• An incremental backup is a copy of only
those blocks that have changed since the
last full or incremental backup
Backup Technologies

• The VSS backup technology solves data

consistency issues by creating shadow
copies
• You can also use streaming backups for
older applications that are not VSS-aware
• Hyper-V replica provides you with a
disaster recovery option by replicating a
consistent copy of a virtual machine to
another server or site.
Planning Backup Capacity

When planning for backup capacity,

consider the
following:
• Space requirements for a full backup
• Space requirements for an incremental
backup
• Amount of time required to back up
• Backup frequency
• Backup retention
Planning Backup Security

When planning your backup security,

consider the following:
• Backups contain all organizational data
• Access to backup media means access to all
data
• Windows Server Backup does not encrypt
backups
• Keep backup media in a secure location
What Is Windows Server Backup?

You can use Windows Server Backup to:

• Back up full server (all volumes)
• Back up selected volumes
• Back up selected items
• Perform a bare-metal recovery
• Perform a system state
• Back up individual files and folders
• Exclude selected files or file types during backup
• Select from more storage locations for the backup
Demonstration: Configuring a Scheduled
Backup
In this demonstration, you will see how to
configure Windows Server Backup to
perform a scheduled backup of specific
folders that includes a filter to exclude
specific file types
Considerations for an Enterprise Backup
Solution
Considerations for an enterprise backup
solution
are:
• What is the theoretical RPO of the product?
• How quick is RTO recovery?
• Does the solution provide centralized backup?
• Is the solution supported by vendors?
• What is the recovery point capacity?
What Is Data Protection Manager?

DPM:
• Allows you to centralize backups
• Offers 15-minute snapshots of servers and
clients
• Can store backup data on SANs and export to
tape
• Can back up remote sites
• Can be used as part of a backup-to-cloud
strategy
• Supports Microsoft products
Lesson 3: Implementing Server and Data
Recovery

Options for Server Recovery

Options for Server Restore with Windows RE
Options for Data Recovery
Demonstration: Using Windows Server
Backup to Restore a Folder
• Restoring with Windows Azure Backup
Options for Server Recovery

The options for server recovery include:

• Files and folders
• Applications and data
• Volumes
• Operating system
• Full server
• System state
• BCDEdit allows you to edit the BCD Store to
modify boot options
• Safe mode boots computer with minimal
services and drivers
• Last known good configuration is the most
recent set of driver and registry settings from a
successful startup.
Options for Server Restore with Windows
RE
• Windows RE allows you to recover server
images or volumes from local disk or
network share
You can enter Windows RE, when:
• You boot from install media
• You press F8
• Successive boot failures or unexpected
shutdowns occur
Options for Data Recovery

The four options for recovering data

include:
• Allowing users to recover their own data
• Recovering data to an alternate location
• Recovering data to the original location
• Performing a full volume recovery
Demonstration: Using Windows Server
Backup to Restore a Folder
In this demonstration, you will see how to
use the Recovery Wizard to restore a folder
Restoring with Windows Azure Backup

When restoring files by using Windows Azure

Online Backup, perform the following steps:
1. Select the server
2. Locate the files you want to recover from
backup
3. Choose the restore location
4. Select an option for copy creation

Restore
 Lab: Implementing Windows Server
Backup and Restore

Exercise 1: Backing Up Data on a Windows

Server 2012 R2 Server
• Exercise 2: Restoring Files Using Windows
Server Backup

Logon Information
Virtual machines: 20412C-LON-DC1,
20412C-LON-SVR1
User name Adatum\Administrator
Password: Pa$$w0rd

Estimated Time: 60 minutes

Lab Scenario

Much of the data that is stored on the A. Datum

Corporation’s network is extremely valuable to the
organization. Losing this data would be a
significant loss to the organization. Additionally,
many of the servers that are running on the
network provide extremely valuable services for
the organization, which means that losing these
servers for a significant time would also result in
losses to the organization. Because of the
significance of the data and services, it is critical
that they can be restored in the event of disaster.
A. Datum is considering backing up critical data to
a cloud-based service. A. Datum is also considering
this as an option for small branch offices that do
not have a full data center infrastructure.
Lab Scenario

As one of the senior network administrators at A.

Datum, you are responsible for planning and
implementing a data-protection solution that will
ensure that critical data and services can be
recovered in the event of any type of failure. You
need to implement a backup-and-restore process
that can recover lost data and services.
Lab Review

You are concerned about business-critical

data that is located on your company's
servers. You want to perform backups every
day, but not during business hours. What
should you do?
• Users report that they can no longer access
data that is located on the server. You
connect to the server, and you realize that
the shared folder where users were
accessing data is missing. What should you
do?