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... note that as backup programs go, this is probably the poorest choice availoable. When it comes to something as important as backup, I think it's worth spending a few dollars and springing for something like Acronis True Image. -- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup.

Microsoft Backup Problem.
Volgens mij kun je beter zo'n foto archief apart backuppen en acronis alleen gebruiken om je windows systeem partitie met alle geïnstalleerde programma's te backuppen. Eén keer per maand maak ik met Acronis True Image een complete backup (image) naar deze 3 backup schijven (duurt 1 uur per backup).

Revert roaming profiles to local profiles?
If the directory structures are written to the image file first, they're not gunna have the result of the changes in the image file. Isn'ta new directory being created on the partition being copied to when using a Windows backup program? I didnt mean a directory in that sense, even just the creation of a new file

What backup software do you use and why?
If you use software like Acronis, you can back up a disk image to media, and if you have enough space (quite common now with the size of HDs and external HDs There is a "How Often" dialogue box shown in the links below: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/backup.mspx Tips on

Freie Backup-Software für Windows XP Pro SP2
I had previously done a backup to an external hard disk with no problems. Now that external drive was configured as two volumes each with its own drive letter. What I can't remember is if I divided the drive after I did the backup or before the backup. Notwithstanding I could see the previous windows image backup

MS please fix the broken backup and restore center
Mike nos...@test.com microsoft public windows server sbs Thanks for the additional suggsestions Jim. Some of the links you provided look like they hold promise and Creating a backup is certainly an evident step in a scenario like this. I already stated I had a good BESR (Livestate) partition image backup of the

Windows Backup Utility
ceed ceed.spamea...@dysthe.net microsoft public windows vista general PTravel wrote: "ceed" <ceed.spamea...@dysthe.net> wrote in message news:xn0fau36f40gdi000@news.individual.net... Hi, I've got Vista Ultimate and noticed that it comes with a whole disk image based backup option. That's really a great way to back

hard drive copy
Regards, Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User (For email, remove the obvious from my address) "ceed" <ceed.spamea...@dysthe.net> wrote in message news:xn0fau36f40gdi000@news.individual.net... Hi, I've got Vista Ultimate and noticed that it comes with a whole disk image based backup option.

File system issues on system partition
You know very well Mark that you don't try to run other programs when you do backups. No more than you do when you image your drive. Maybe there was some confusion in here, but one of the advantages some people claim for Windows backup is the ability to do other things with the computer during a backup.

Ntbackup (Windows Backup)
Image backups are *not* a substitute for regular full backups in a Windows/Exchange/domain environment, although they're a useful augmentation. and defrag desktops JKDefrag is free - and I don't back up desktops. I don't image them, either, unless that's a special request. I don't store anything on a desktop I care

Backup before upgrade to XP?
In the meantime, I seem to remember some sort of image capture function in Nero. Perhaps will throw that back onto the machine and see what about it. I guess that backup in windows xp pro doesn't have something similar? "Colin Barnhorst" wrote: XP SP3 will rollup those hundred downloads.

Is Windows Backup any good?
I assume in the event of being unable to boot into WINXP, you can restart using the CD then restore the system using the backup, is this how it works? Thinking aloud, I guess you need to restore from outside of Windows so would need a boot CD, similar to True Image. Anyway, is there any reason why I should not use

Windows Backup to CD?
><)))º>` .. . databaseben.public.newsgroup.microsoft.com microsoft public windowsxp general windows backup or "backups" in general are not reliable and inefficient for many regular computer users. instead i would suggest to use disk imaging technology. the one i use is called drive image xml. unlike a backup file

Reinstall Windows
InfoQuest InfoQu...@worldnet.att.net microsoft public windowsxp basics microsoft public windowsxp general microsoft public windowsxp setup_deployment The down side of using Windows Backup Utility/ASR is that if the drive goes bad, you must reinstall Windows and then restore the backup off the external drive.

Windows Backup
I also have a copy of Acronis 7 backup software that I previously used on my old Windows 98SE system. Now, for my questions: Is Acronis 7 compatible with a I've been using Acronis True Image since v7 and it works quite well on all my XP systems. At times I prefer it to v11 because it seems (to me) to be faster

Image Windows XP Why?
O da O&O faz isso direto, backup da partição (Com o windows rodando) direto pro DVD (Ou um disco externo via USB) Na verdade pelo Hiren's se subir os gmail.com> wrote: Walter, procure por Acronis true image, alternativa para Ghost. Eu particularmente gosto muito Ele ainda tem um diferencial muito interessante.

File system issues on system partition
You can also use the ghost explorer to look into the image file and see the contents of the image just like you see your C: drive in windows explorer. You havn't said what your backup medium is. If you are using Norton Ghost, or Drive Image you can backup to CD-Rs and it will "span" them without trouble.

Drive Image 2002: A Backwards Step of Evolution?
At home I use either PowerQuest's Drive Image or Terabyte Unlimited's Image software. All three offer some rather handy features (such as being able to In any case, you will not get Windows Backup to work with this large a dataset. What you really need is a disk imaging program to back up this much data at once

3rd party backup for ME
A backup copies the files on a drive (into a backup file), not really caring where they are on the drive. They can both use compression while copying all the files they back up/copy to a master file (*.qic-Windows backup, *.TK2-Take Two Image from Easy-Cd Pro, and *.gho-for Norton Ghost Image files, for instance).

What type of backup does Vista perform?
A program which runs as a client on Windows, compresses the data before transmission, and creates an image of a drive would be ideal. Do any of you have experience with something like this? Any really cool, robust, hopefully low-cost (this is for home use) simple, Windows backup software like this jumps to mind?