Backup DHCP Server

Your DHCP servers are critical to providing IP settings to your clients. In the event of a system crash you need to recover this server as soon as possible.

Did you know by default, Windows will back up the DHCP configuration every 60 minutes to this folder %SystemRoot%System32\DHCP\backup.

This is great but does you no good if the server crashes and you can’t access the folder.

If you don’t have any offsite replication in place then you would need to copy the backup folder to another location on a regular schedule.

This can be done with a script that copies the folder to another location or uses PowerShell to specify a remote location.

Backup-DhcpServer -ComputerName “DC01” -Path “C:\DHCPBackup”