How To Restore Backup Windows Server 2012 R2

Restore a computer from a Windows Server 2012 Essentials fill-in

In a domain with a Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Essentials server as the domain controller, take the following steps to check the current backup status, which will show y'all if a backup is currently in progress or, if none is in progress, the condition of the last backup for the system.

While logged into the client computer, open up the Launchpad utility. Information technology should be running in the background; if you search apps on "Launchpad" y'all should run into information technology.
Click on Backup. A Backup Properties window will open displaying the fourth dimension of the concluding successful backup of the system.

To cheque on what backups are available to use to restore a client computer in a domain with a Microsoft Server 2012 Essentials server every bit the domain controller, take the following steps on the client computer, since you cannot restore files and servers to a client computer by using the Dashboard on the server, merely must open the Dashbard on a client figurer to complete the task, to come across the listing of backups bachelor on the server.

From the Launchpad, click on Dashboard
Provide the user business relationship and countersign information for a domain administrator account to log in.

If you receive a message that the business relationship "has an existing session already running", such as the one below, click on OK to end the existing session, noting the warning, of course. The existing session volition likely be the one on the server itself, and then check it commencement, if necessary, if yous were in the eye of some uncompleted job within the Dashboard on the server.

Acme\JDoe has an existing Dashboard session already running.
Cull OK to end the existing Dashboard session.
Alarm:Catastrophe the existing session could result in any unsaved entries getting lost if that session is already managing the server.
Click on Devices from the carte at the top of the Windows Server 2012 Dashboard window.
Select the reckoner that you wish to restore from a backup from the listing beneath "Computers". Then from the Tasks pane on the correct of the window, select "Restore files or folders for the computer.
You can and then choose a fill-in from the list of available backups and click on Next to restore from that backup.
You volition then accept the opportunity to choose the volume that contains the files or binder you lot wish to restore.
You lot volition so be able to select the items, i.due east., files and folders, you wish to restore.