After reading through countless posts, I'm still confused as ever on which option to use "VSS Full Backup" or "VSS Copy Backup", so I will just tell you my setup and what I want to be able to do, and you can tell me which is right. I'd like a nightly incremental backup. Everynight, it should just backup files/folders that I've specified that have been edited/changed and create a new .vhd file. Will doing it this way effect my ability to restore?
Also, if I wanted to create an image of the machine, is this doable from the windows server back up utility? Then if the server crashes, I can restore it (with a disk?) and then restore my data using the most recent backup that I'm trying to setup at the moment.
This is my plan, because one of my servers actually did crash this weekend, and it was a pain to get it up and running again. I create a system snapshot (can windows server backup do this?) and save to an external 4TB drive. If it crashes, I load up disk, plug in 4TB drive and recover that snapshot. Once it loads up, I can go to the windows server backup utility and select "recover", i can then point it to the network location that I'm sending all these nightly incremental too, and it will restore all the files/folders.
Is this correct and possible?
Thanks