{"id":17,"date":"2008-07-10T11:10:55","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T19:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:46:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:46:41","slug":"bare-bone-restore-of-windows-server-2008-to-new-hardware-using-windows-server-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Bare-metal restore of Windows Server 2008 to new hardware, using Windows Server Backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I covered in a <strong><a title=\"Windows Server backup- Windows Server 2008\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/video\/tutorials\/configure-server-backup-sbs-2008\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Step-by-Step video tutorial, the new Windows Server Backup features in Windows Server 2008<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I also demonstrated in another <strong><a title=\"Bare-netal restore - Windows Server 2008\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/video\/tutorials\/bare-metal-restore-sbs-2008\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Screencast the Bare-Metal restore of Windows Small Business Server 2008 (using Windows Server Backup)<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I got a question on <strong><a title=\"NetoMeter Online Chat\" href=\"http:\/\/www.websitealive4.com\/467\/rRouter.asp?groupid=467&amp;departmentid=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neto-Chat<\/a><\/strong>: Can you perform Bare-Metal restore of Windows Server 2008 to a different hardware using Windows Server Backup.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t tried this and I am testing it at the moment. As usually, the results will be posted as a Step-by-Step video tutorial.<\/p>\n<p>The question has an interesting twist. Can you restore Windows Server 2008 running on a physical machine, to a virtual machine. For example you might want to backup a server running in a production environment or duplicate it in a test network.<\/p>\n<p>What about the opposite &#8211; moving an installation of Windows Server 2008 from a Virtual Machine, to a physical one.<\/p>\n<p>The videos are coming!!!<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned on <a title=\"NetoMeter - Extending the Power of Knowledge\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NetoMeter<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; subscribe to our <strong><a title=\"NetoMeter Screencasts RSS\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/?feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Screencasts RSS<\/a><\/strong> and be one of the first to watch and comment them.<\/p>\n<p>Dean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you perform Bare-Metal restore of Windows Server 2008 to a different hardware using Windows Server Backup.<br \/>\nStay tuned on NetoMeter &#8211; subscribe to our Screencasts RSS and be one of the first to watch and comment the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[524,342],"tags":[26,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}