I have a system with Windows 2008 server R2 Foundation SP1. I have a USB connected external drive that I use for my Windows Backup. I use the Windows Server Backup that comes with the operating system. I back the system up every night at 9pm.
Last week there was a Microsoft update of some kind but since then my system sill not run Windows Update and the Microsoft Security Essentials that I had running is gone form the system. I have tried various suggestions to get the Windows Update running again, but none have been successful. So I figured I would restore my system back to what it was on October 1.
I opened the Windows Server Backup from the start->administrator tools->Windows Server Backup i see the dialog window with three sections. The first section (Messages) shows the last 6 days of backup.
The middle section (status) has three sections, Last Backup, Next Backup and All Backups. In the list of All Backups from yesterday's date until I believe when I started the first backup. So I figured I would be able to restore to one of the earlier times.
I shut down my server.
I moved the external drive to another computer on the network.
I then installed the original system disk and followed the instructions for repairing the computer. I had to tell it to look on the network to find the system image. I finds only what it says it he last backup image. I did not want to use it because the date is yesterday's date, but that version of the system has the problem so I figured restoring to that would not help. It only shows one image in the list of available images. So what good is showing me all those times if I can't restore to one of them?
Perhaps I'm missing something. Do I need to restore to that latest one and then will it ask me to what time I want?
I hope someone can answer this because there is a ton of applications on the server that would have to be reinstalled if I can't just use the backup that I thought was going to prevent a need to do that.
Thanks,
Bob