does windows incremental backup include system state backup?

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Published on 2012-10-30T22:09:37Z Indexed on 2012/10/30 23:04 UTC
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I'm managing my very small office server with windows server 2008. since I have only one server, and the user group is really small. I made the first hdd into 2 partitions. one (C:) for windows and Active directory, another (D:) for tomcat and database.

I'm doing incremental back C: and D: daily to hdd2 (E:) using windows server backup. is it enough to let me do fully restore my server in case of disaster? I ask this because I have read there is also a system state backup, and I also have to do that periodically in order to get AD back?

isn't it with incremental/full backup I can do full bare-metal recovery?

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