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Windows Server 2016 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Second Edition

You're reading from  Windows Server 2016 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787122048
Pages 660 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Authors (2):
Thomas Lee Thomas Lee
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 Ed Goad Ed Goad
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. What's New in PowerShell and Windows Server 2. Implementing Nano Server 3. Managing Windows Updates 4. Managing Printers 5. Managing Server Backup 6. Managing Performance 7. Troubleshooting Windows Server 2016 8. Managing Windows Networking Services 9. Managing Network Shares 10. Managing Internet Information Server 11. Managing Hyper-V 12. Managing Azure 13. Using Desired State Configuration

Restore files and folders


Performing backups is great, but backups are only useful if you can use them to restore files and folders. The reasons for restoring include recovering from a major system disaster, recovering from a single disk failure, or just restoring a file a user has inadvertently deleted.

In the previous recipe, you saw how you could mount the VHDX that WSB created for you and give it a drive letter. So one way to recover the file is just to mount the backup VHDX and then use Explorer or other tools to copy files from the backup to a new home. This recipe uses the WSB cmdlets to recover to a separate folder. You would do this if you wanted to recover some particular files and did not want to overwrite anything.

Getting ready

In this recipe, you first create a new backup policy and start it to create a backup. This script, which is derived from the recipe Configure and set a backup policy, is as follows:

If (Get-WBPolicy) {Remove-WBPolicy -All}
   If (-NOT (Test-Path C:food1.txt...
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