Can I use windows backup (windows 2012) to backup the C:\ with OS and SQL then reformat C:\ and restore from the backup?
I have a Server with the OS drive on RAID 0 (SQL server also installed).
I need to replace one of the disks.
Because this is a PROD server I also need a backup of the disk incase something goes wrong (other wise it's going to take 8 hours to rebuild the server from scratch).
So with windows backup. Can i restore the OS (with all the installed applications) onto a new drive?
or is the backup bound to a specific instance of 2012?