Chapter 17

Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining Server Availability (4.0)

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Plan a backup and recovery strategy.

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Practice 1: Using the Windows Server 2003 Backup program, create backup

jobs to perform differential or incremental jobs six days a week and a normal

job on the seventh day.

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Practice 2: Perform a full system backup using the Windows Server 2003

Backup program, then practice restoring individual files, multiple files, and

folders, both to their original locations and to an alternate location, using the

various file overwrite options.

Further Reading

This section lists supplemental readings by objective. We recommend that you study

these sources thoroughly before taking exam 70-293.

Objective 4.1

Review Lessons 1, 2, and 3 in Chapter 7, “Clustering Servers.”

Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Deployment Kit. Volume:

Planning Server Deployments. Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Press, 2003. Review

Chapter 6, “Planning for High Availability and Scalability.” This volume can also be

found on Microsoft’s Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003

/techinfo/reskit/deploykit.mspx.

Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft Encyclopedia of Networking, 2d ed. Redmond,

Washington: Microsoft Press, 2002. See entries for “clustering.”

Objective 4.2

Review Lesson 2 in Chapter 6, “Maintaining Server Availability.”

Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit. Volume:

Windows 2000 Server Operations Guide. Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Press,

2000. Review Chapters 5 to 9. (The performance monitoring principles outlined

in these chapters are applicable to Windows Server 2003.)

Objective 4.3 Review Lesson 3 in Chapter 6, “Maintaining Server Availability” and

Lessons 1, 2, and 3 in Chapter 7, “Clustering Servers.”

Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Deployment Kit. Volume:

Planning Server Deployments. Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Press, 2003. Review

Chapter 7, “Designing and Deploying Server Clusters.” This volume can also be

found on Microsoft’s Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003

/techinfo/reskit/deploykit.mspx.

Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft SQL Server 2000 High Availability Series. Review

the article on “Implementing Failover Clustering” on Microsoft’s Web site at http:

//www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2000/deploy/hasog01.mspx.

Microsoft Corporation. Windows Server 2003 Help and Support Center. Review the

“Backing Up and Restoring Server Clusters” pages.