Manage backup for Windows Server 2012 Essentials client computers

This section includes information about common backup tasks that you can accomplish by using the Windows Server 2012 Essentials Dashboard.

This section includes the following topics:

• How the Repair the Backup Database Wizard works
  
  
• Understand the computer backup settings
  
  
• Set up backup for a client computer
  
  
• Change the time that backup is scheduled to run
  
  
• Change the computer backup retention policy
  
  
• Reset backup to default settings
  
  
• Tell me more about the repair and recovery tools
  
  
• Repair the backup database
  
  
• Disable backup for a computer
  
  
• Run the backup Cleanup task
  
  
• View alerts in the task bar on a client computer
  
  
• View backup status from the Launchpad
  
  
• Stop a backup in progress from the Launchpad
  
  
• Start a backup from the Launchpad
  
  
• How computer backup works
  
  

• Warning
  Tips to help prevent data loss due to corruption of the client backup database

• Restore files or folders from a client computer backup