Recoverability. This tool shows some good design features on the recovery side. You can boot to a Server 2008 DVD and restore (either the entire computer or its System State) from a full backup, saving you the step of installing the operating system in order to be able to access the backup program. You can also select individual files and folders when restoring data in a non-WinRE scenario.
Verifiability. If you are backing up to removable media, backups are verified for errors by default, unless you invoke WBADMIN with the -noverify qualifier. I have not been able to find any reference specifying whether the program uses any sort of verification for backups to nonremovable media. Furthermore, no provision seems to have been made for performing a verification pass after the backup is complete – something that the old NTBACKUP program did provide, helping sysadmins who used it to sleep at night.
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Windows Server 2008 Backup Performance
