Today’s the day! World Backup Day!
There used to be a saying, only two things in life are certain. Death and Taxes. Well, this is the computer age. Add hard disk failure and data loss to the list!
Today’s the day! World Backup Day!
There used to be a saying, only two things in life are certain. Death and Taxes. Well, this is the computer age. Add hard disk failure and data loss to the list!
Hyper-V replication is an essential ‘server availability’ tool for any organization. Whilst it is not a substitute for good backups; it will allow you to restore an up-to-date copy of your virtual servers very quickly, should your primary host hardware fail.
In this tutorial, i have built two Windows 2012 R2 servers using a pair of old Dell Optiplex 580’s (AMD Phenom CPU, upgraded to 8GB RAM each), and a single 8 port Netgear GB switch.
The Primary server name is: Truro
The Secondary server name is: Exeter
Lets get started…