Showing posts with label Export and import Windows DHCP Server and Windows IAS Server. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Export and import Windows DHCP Server and Windows IAS Server. Show all posts

Wednesday, 10 October 2012

How to take backup for Windows IAS server and DHCP server ?

For Windows 2003 Server if we want to take backup and restore it in another Windows machine, we have a very handy command "netsh"

c:\> netsh ?

Commands in this context:
?              - Displays a list of commands.
aaaa           - Changes to the `netsh aaaa' context.
add            - Adds a configuration entry to a list of entries.
bridge         - Changes to the `netsh bridge' context.
delete         - Deletes a configuration entry from a list of entries.
dhcp           - Changes to the `netsh dhcp' context.
diag           - Changes to the `netsh diag' context.
dump           - Displays a configuration script.
exec           - Runs a script file.
firewall       - Changes to the `netsh firewall' context.
help           - Displays a list of commands.
interface      - Changes to the `netsh interface' context.
ipsec          - Changes to the `netsh ipsec' context.
ras            - Changes to the `netsh ras' context.
routing        - Changes to the `netsh routing' context.
rpc            - Changes to the `netsh rpc' context.
set            - Updates configuration settings.
show           - Displays information.
wins           - Changes to the `netsh wins' context.
winsock        - Changes to the `netsh winsock' context.

To take IAS server backup

Server 1

c:\> netsh aaaa show config > backup.txt

Server 2 ( restore)

c:> netsh exec backup.txt

To take DHCP Server backup and restore

Server 1

c:\> netsh dhcp server export dhcpbackup.txt all

Server 2

c:\>  netsh dhcp server import dhcpbackup.txt all