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Small Business Server 2008 - Installation, Migration, and Configuration

By : David Overton
Book Image

Small Business Server 2008 - Installation, Migration, and Configuration

By: David Overton

Overview of this book

Small Businesses need to capitalize on the investments they make in IT to drive the business forward. SBS 2008 is uniquely positioned to deliver, but a poor implementation becomes a hindrance rather than a benefit to your business. Well implemented solutions enable your business to appear larger, yet more dynamic than many enterprises. It's easy to get Small Business Server 2008 up and running when you've got this book to hand. It helps you in a clear and friendly manner to understand how to implement SBS 2008 inside your business in a way that matches your business needs. The author's experience enables him to share a tried and tested path to deliver the business benefits without becoming bogged down in unnecessary details that are not relevant to small businesses. SBS 2008 is a fantastic investment for Small Businesses to make towards a well managed and highly functional IT solution in their business. This book is the culmination of many years advising small business owners and consultants on the recommend, tried and tested path to implement small business technology from Microsoft. Through this book you will gain an understanding of the features you can choose to use and then how to securely implement the server to deliver them. It will guide you through the installation and configuration process with the help of step-by-step instructions and plentiful screenshots. It will also explain how you can benefit from the collaboration tools based on SharePoint and how you can protect all your business data with a back-up process that covers anything from deleted files to a fire in the office. Imagine how great you'll feel when your Small Business Server 2008 is ready and working, and you can get back to surfing the Internet!
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Small Business Server 2008 Installation, Migration, and Configuration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Configuring backups and running a test backup


Backing up an SBS 2008 system is a vital part of the daily routine. SBS 2008 can reliably automate this for you, without the need for additional software, once the configuration is complete. I would recommend using at least two and ideally, three USB disk drives that can be plugged into the server for the backup, but easily swapped on a regular basis to enable you to take the backup off-site.

These drives would be used only for the SBS backup and are specially configured in SBS. Provided that one of the configured set of drives is attached to SBS 2008, it will continue to take backups.

For security, I would advise that the drives are swapped daily or weekly. Also that the non-active drives are removed from your premises while not connected to the server and stored in a secure, ideally fireproof, location. However, as these systems contain hard disks, they should be handled with care and just like tapes, they are still prone to wear. You should...