{"id":43,"date":"2008-11-28T03:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/support\/windows-server-2008-core-backup\/"},"modified":"2019-11-13T09:38:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T09:38:43","slug":"windows-server-2008-core-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/windows-server-2008-core-backup","title":{"rendered":"Windows Server 2008 Core Backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a few questions recently about BackupAssist running on Windows Server 2008 Core. After some experimentation, I managed to get it all working and it was successfully running image backups and sending me email notifications. (I haven&#8217;t yet tested the file replication, SQL or Rsync backups yet.) The only thing I&#8217;ve noticed so far is that you can only read the backup reports as plain text, not HTML (because IE isn&#8217;t installed on Server Core). The HTML Email notification works just fine.<\/p>\n<p>However, the prerequisite install process is a bit different to normal OSs, and the current installer won&#8217;t work&#8230; so unfortunately you can&#8217;t run it on Server Core just yet.<\/p>\n<p>BUT now that we know that it&#8217;s possible, and we know the procedure to get it working, we will be putting together another package. It looks at this stage that it will need to be a separate download, which unfortunately breaks our objective of one download for all products. However, there&#8217;s really nothing we can do about that because Server Core is just so different! [To be honest, we&#8217;re lucky that it worked at all]<\/p>\n<p>I hope to be able to give everyone more good news in the near term future. An installer is on the way! Wouldn&#8217;t that be a nice Christmas present?<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p>Linus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all, I&#8217;ve had a few questions recently about BackupAssist running on Windows Server 2008 Core. After some experimentation, I managed to get it all working and it was successfully running image backups and sending me email notifications. (I haven&#8217;t yet tested the file replication, SQL or Rsync backups yet.) The only thing I&#8217;ve noticed &#8230; <a title=\"Windows Server 2008 Core Backup\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/windows-server-2008-core-backup\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Windows Server 2008 Core Backup<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,760],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dev","category-support","category-legacy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Windows Server 2008 Core Backup - Cyber Resilience Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/windows-server-2008-core-backup\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Windows Server 2008 Core Backup - Cyber Resilience Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi all, I&#8217;ve had a few questions recently about BackupAssist running on Windows Server 2008 Core. 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