AlwaysOn encompasses high-availability and disaster recovery technologies that are also available in SQL Server 2012, including failover clustering and the use of active secondaries for backup.

In the Restore Database window, select the database and the backup sets to restore, and press OK. How to Restore a Backup Using T-SQL Alternatively, you can use the T-SQL commands to restore a ...

Even now, a full workstation backup seems like overkill. As I have recently discovered though, you can use a PowerShell script to back up a SQL Server Express database.