So, I've searched for this and I keep coming back with how to do this with NTBackup utility, however; our connected WSUS server must be upgraded to Windows 2008 R2, per a customer mandate from Windows 2003 R2 x64.
Our offline server is already using 2008 R2 and we used the NTBackup Utility and NTRestore to move the connected WSUS DB and updates to the offline one, and it's worked perfectly after getting all the glitches ironed out that are offline WSUS.
My question is, with 2K8R2 not having NTBackup, what is a good way to achieve what works flawlessly? Windows Server backup doesn't look like it will provide us what we're trying to do, and while we do have Symantec NetBackup, I'm not sure if that would work either, since it stores the backups on the server and the clients connect to the server to get a restore.
I'm kind of lost as to what to do and proceed because without the ability to go from online to offline, I don't think this is going to work.
Does anyone have any suggestions how to achieve what I'm looking to do with using Windows 2008 R2 on both online and offline?