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I've been using legacy (Windows 7) Backup and Restore on a Windows 10 Pro system to generate system image backups that can be restored from bare metal. A major limitation of the tool, however, is that I can only have one image stored on a particular drive; if I run the backup again, the system replaces the older image. Setting the amount of space for System Restore to 100% does not help.

Is there some way I can get the system to store multiple images on the same target drive? It's okay if I need to use the command line or change group policy.

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Create multiple partitions on the backup drive, and then you can create an image on each partition. Other data can also be saved on each partition without disturbing the Windows Image Backup. I do this all the time.

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  • I'd honestly prefer not to create a new partition for each backup, so I'm going to wait for alternative answers, but +1.
    – bwDraco
    Jul 13, 2016 at 10:30
  • Bear in mind, other date can reside along with the image back on those partitions without any conflict.
    – the original mike western
    Aug 13, 2016 at 2:44
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Late answer, but you should be able to rename the folder WindowsImageBackup to something else without having to use another partition.

On a multi-boot system with Win 7 and Win 10, this is actually required as a workaround for a bug that doing a Win 7 image backup after doing a Win 10 image backup will cause Win 10 image restore unable to find the Win 10 image backup. What I use for a workaround is to have two folders, one named WindowsImageBackup.w7 the other named WindowsImageBackup.w10. I rename one of them to WindowsImageBackup just before doing a backup, then rename it back.

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