Schedulability. No complaints here. The new backup tool lets you set your own schedule for repeating backups. In fact, the utility nudges you to create a backup schedule the first time you use it.
Scriptability. When you opt to include the command-line software as well as the graphical tool when adding the Windows Server Backup feature via Server Manager, you get the WBADMIN.EXE program as well as some PowerShell commandlets (although remember that Server Core does not support PowerShell).
For more details on WBADMIN, see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=93131. Meanwhile, here’s an example of how you might use WBADMIN to perform a full backup to a remote share:
wbadmin.exe start backup -backuptarget:servernamesharename
-allCritical -VSSfull
File formats. Any backups you made with the older NTBACKUP tool can’t be read by Windows Server Backup. No problem, just install the old tool on Windows Server 2008, right? Wrong. The best you can do is get a special, restore-only version of NTBACKUP from Microsoft. Find it at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=82917.
Remoteability. You can use the tool to connect to remote computers and perform backups (choose “Connect to another computer” in the Actions pane), as long as the remote computer also has the Windows Server Backup bits installed. For example, you can connect to a Server Core box and perform a backup using the GUI.
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