How to set up a free PXE Server in Windows? And, do backup and restore through PXE Server?
Create a folder on your desired location, such as Desktop. Use “PXE” for example in below screenshot.
Select “Export PXE Image” from Total Backup Recovery main user interface, and save it to “PXE” folder.
Once PXE image exported to your selected location, you can find a “Boot” folder which contains all related boot files.
Download free TFTPD32 from website: http://tftpd32.jounin.net/ , and install it on the machine where PXE image exported to.
Set “Current Directory” to the same folder where you exported PXE image to:
Configure TFTPD32’s DHCP Server Server interfaces: It shows IP address for current system. In this case, it used 192.168.142.129 IP pool starting address: It shows the initial IP address that was assigned by DHCP. Be sure this IP is in the same WAN as your local network. In this case, it started from “200”. Boot File: Please type in boot\pxeboot.com
Fill in rest of columns with appropriate info. Once completes, click “Save”
Run “PXE boot” for selected system (see below screenshot), and boot from Network.