I ran into a situation recently that required pulling a backup copy of Applications.xml as ours seemed to revert to an out of box configuration. The same week, while editing a Task Sequence, the MMC crashed when creating a nested If statement. When
I went to edit the TS again, it kept crashing the MMC making me think there was an invalid configuration. Turns out the ts.xml was completely empty. I checked for a backup copy and to my surprise, there wasn't one!
This got me thinking about this backup feature:
- What is backed up and what isn't?
- How does the backup process work?
- Can Task Sequences be included?
- Are there any configurable options (e.g.: instead of just 5 copies, keep 10)?
I wanted to read more about how this backup feature works but I'm having a hard time finding anything of value:
- Searching for 'automatic', 'backup' and 'backup automatic' in Help returns 212 results (158, 49 & 5 respectively), none of them speak to this feature.
- Didn't find anything useful in the
documentation pack
Everything is about backing up machines and/or user data, which is not what I'm looking for.
Is this feature documented?