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Amazon s3 as backup and remote file access [closed]
Looking to use Amazon s3 as storage backup and remote file access.
What are any pitfalls I should be aware of?
Any comparisons between Cloudberry and Dragon Disk as a backup client?
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Windows XP Backup [closed]
How does the Windows XP Backup Utility work?
Does it just backup files? Does it backup the entire system?
How does restore work? Do you restore the file and it restores the entire system settings and ...
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Backing up Windows XP Files
Scenario system crash. I've decided it's going to just be easier to run and restore from a system disk then trying to reload backups should say a disk failure(after all the system backups are stored ...
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Windows 7 backup best practices [closed]
I'm running two notebooks, one mac and one windows pc. On my Mac, I have TimeMachine as Backup solution where I can easily restore single files or my whole system, whatever I want. Now I'm looking for ...
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Mapping dd commands to ddrescue
I'm trying to back up the Windows Recovery Partition on a laptop using ddrescue. I tried using dd, but I kept getting an Input Output error (at about 9.65 GB through, if it matters), so I learned that ...
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what is the best backup solution for 400GB? [closed]
I currently am using a 500GB external hard drive for backup. A friend's external hard drive recently crashed so I wanted to verify if i can come up with a more secure backup solution. I have about ...
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Avoiding backup partition getting damaged or lost
I have an HP DV6 2005AX laptop, which came pre-installed Windows 7 Home Premium. It has two partitions C: and D:, the latter is a backup partition to restore the laptop to the factory default state. ...
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Restoring windows backup after the version of Windows has been changed
I have created a Windows Backup of my C:\ and have it saved it in my D:. The backup was done by selecting the, "Let Windows Choose what files to backup" option. I am currently having Windows 7 Home ...
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Windows Backup fails with 0x80070002: “The system cannot find the file specified”
Windows 7 Backup is failing. When backing up even a single insignificant directory (e.g. I chose only the empty "Contacts" directory, leaving all other directories unchecked), I get this error within ...
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How to back up non-standard directories in my user profile with Windows Backup?
I'm using Windows Backup to back up my Win7 Pro laptop. I'd like to use it to back up my complete user profile, but I only see standard profile directories (e.g. C:\Users\JohnstonJ\Documents) in the ...
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Backing up difference in windows system
I have various systems with windows xp installed. After fresh installatios I installed some softwares like visual studio etc. Now lets call this IMAGE1 of the computers.
I give out these pcs to users ...
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Add a new partition to Windows [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Partition C disk running Windows 7 in half
I just got a new laptop with 750GB with Windows 7 pre-installed, office and some extra apps for the laptop.
The thing is I ...
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System disk image backup
Looking for poweruser suggestions for incremental system drive backup.
My system is a laptop, and main backup would be a disk at home. Though would also like to "backup/restore on the road".
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Windows emergency repair disk generic?
I wonder if the Windows 7 emergency repair (aka restore) disk is
specific for a particular computer, or
generic and can be used as repair disk for several computers.
In other words, do I need to ...
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Windows Backup Server Execution Failed 0x8008005
I set up backup when I installed 7 way too long ago and now I can't change its settings.
server execution failed 0x8008005
[Google gives me nothing.](http://www.google.com/search?q="windows backup" ...
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Windows Backup failed: Error 80070037
On Windows 7 Pro x64, the customer has a USB3 external Hard Drive that is 2TB, and two internal SATA drives that are 750GB each. They also have a USB controller, which the hard drive is plugged into. ...
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Does built in Windows 7 backup handle paths > 256 chars?
Does built in Windows 7 backup handle paths > 256 chars ?
I'm doing NTFS to NTFS backup using Cobain, from external drive to external drive, and it's simply NOT backing up those files that have ...
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Is there ANY backup tool that can handle 256 path length limit on NTFS?
Is there ANY backup tool that can handle 256 path length limit on NTFS ?
I'm not talking about a sync or filecopy tool like robocopy,
but an incremental backup tool like cobian backup (which cannot ...
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Script to run before Windows backup
I need to write a script to check the size of the disk that our backups store to on client machines and decide if it needs to delete the oldest backup set so the current days backup can run.
Is there ...
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Windows 7 Backup vs. Previous Versions
We currently have a ton of Windows 7 64 machines that have user data that we want to have backups for incase of a failure.
We have a 1 465gb harddrive as the system drive and a 1tb hard drive as a ...
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Backup to a specific folder with Windows Backup
When setting up Windows Backup I get the following screen:
As you can see, there is no option to backup to a specific folder on any of these drives. Is there a way to force the backups to go in a ...
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Not enough space for Windows 7 System Backup
My primary hard disk only has 617GB used. It is a 1.21TB hard drive.
I am backing up to a newly formatted 931GB drive.
I'm only doing System Backup and not any separate files.
Why is Windows 7 ...
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Combining full system image with online backup
I want to implement online backup for a couple of my clients. There are a few obstacles though:
The large amount of old data (over 100GB) will make this quite expensive to store online.
The slow ...
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Automatic incremental backups to a network drive (Windows)
So after learning that Windows 7 Home Premium doesn't support this, I'm looking for another solution. I would like to backup my Windows machine to my Ubuntu server. Are there any good automatic ...
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WesternDigital SmartWare - still problematic?
I've seen a lot of bad press on WD SmartWare (I think it comes on most WD backup devices now, such as their MyBook product line), mostly related to how it's impossible to remove properly or replace. ...
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Windows 7 backup two external hard drives that I swap weekly
For about a year I have used Windows 7's back-up tool and Mozy to do local and remote back-ups. Now that Mozy is eliminating the unlimited packages, I plan to switch to two external drives that I will ...
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How to setup no-nonsense home network backup for Windows 7 laptops?
I have two Windows 7 laptops on my WiFi network. Each has approx. 500GB of data (primarily photos, songs and Word/PDF files). I also have an old desktop computer (2GHz, 2GB RAM, 1.5TB drive, network ...
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Moving Windows 7 Backups (including images) to another drive. (as simple as cut and paste?)
I have a network of computers that use Windows 7 Backup system. They each send their backup to a shared drive on the network.
I now wish to change which drive they send them too. This works fine. ...
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Where did my backup files go? Can they be recovered?
I just purchased a Western Digital Essential SE 1TB external hard drive from Best Buy at their recommendation. I then exchanged it for a Toshiba Canvio (I think that was the name).
I have a Toshiba ...
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Is it possible to create or store a Windows backup system image on a non-NTFS drive?
I'm trying to use Windows Backup on Windows 7 to create a system image to a network location. The destination, identified by UNC path, is an Apple Time Capsule formatted with HFS+. While Windows ...
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“the VSS service is shutting down due to idle timeout” event ID: 8224
I wrote a backup solution in VC++ that takes snapshots and backs up files and directories from the volume snapshot.
Since Monday, the machine(windows server 2008) seems to be rebooting everytime the ...
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Is there any possible way to create backup of Windows XP like windows 7?
I want to know is there any way to create the backup of Windows XP like in Windows 7? As in windows & there is a option for a schedule backup and it creates an image of backup on external source ...
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Can't figure out how to use Windows Backup
I'm seriously confused.
I tell Windows 7 to back up some files on my D:\ drive along with my documents from C:\ onto my Q:\ drive, and here's what I see, with some questions:
Every time I change a ...
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Change scheduled windows7 backup setting
I have a Window7 backup task scheduled to run everyday to a shared drive that no longer exists
So I get an error message about it every day.
There seems to be no way to change/cancel an existing ...
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Backup system image excluding non-bootdisk Library folders
Win7 Pro running off an SSD where numerous Library locations point to a secondary harddrive. I want a system image that excludes files these 'remote' files.
Ideally I can just remove the drive in ...
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Windows 7 Backup & Restore makes backup of external hard drive partition although unchecked in backup settings
I ran into a strange problem with Windows 7 Backup & Restore.
I've got the following setup:
Internal ssd with c: (system), 80GB
Internal hard drive e: (data), 320GB, 100GB used
External hard ...
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Windows 7 backup says “Backup in Progress” and won't load the application
My 64 bit Windows 7 Pro Thinkpad (t420s) laptop seems to have its backup system in a screwed up state. Probably (partially) my fault, but I'm not sure how to fix it.
I had Acronis Home backup ...
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large directory file echo
Are there any tools out there that will echo one-way changes from one large directory (5+ million files) to another across a Windows network? I also need it to be a fairly quick sync after the ...
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How can I read files created by Samsung Recovery Backup solution?
I did a backup of my laptop with Samsung Recovery Backup solution and installed Windows 7. Because I needed the space that was ocupied by all files I copied them to my external drive.
What I want ...
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Can I restore Picasa pictures and settings from a Windows 7 standard backup?
I store all my pictures in a standard Pictures library (C:\Users\Name\Pictures) on Windows 7. I use Picasa 3.8.0 to work with these pictures.
I have a Windows 7 backup that I run periodically but I ...
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Windows Backup Previous Versions after moving file?
Let's say I set up Windows Backup to backup my pictures. I know that down the road, I can look at the "Previous Versions" tab to restore a particular file back to an old copy.
But, suppose I have ...
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Using Windows Backup and Restore in two locations
I have a backup drive at home and at work that I use for my laptop. I recently upgraded to Windows 7, and I've been experimenting with Windows Backup and Restore. I've noticed that if I don't change ...
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Which files/directories are needed to rebuild a Windows Backup?
I've just had to do a disaster recovery on a drive containing a windows backup that I had accidentally run DBAN on (10 seconds in I shut down, and it appears most of the file system was in tact). I'm ...
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Windows 7 System Image Backup on a twicked system [closed]
I just installed a twicked version of Windows 7 (xDark Deluxe v4.2 64-bit) and I am absolutely loving it. It is faster than I anything I've ever seen and no complaints until now...
I want to save a ...
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How To Backup System To External Source And Then Use Boot From It?
I know Windows 7 has built-in backup facility and i also am familiar with 2BrightSparks' SyncBackSE utility.
I have questions about backing up sensitive information to external source and booting ...
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Restore Files from .WIM Backup File
A client of mine has an HP 300-1330 All-In-One desktop (Windows 7) which started having blue-screens. HP support had him do some kind of backup using HP Recovery Manager if I understand him correctly. ...
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How to back up Windows 7's “Indexing Options” settings?
I'd like to back up (and be able to restore upon Windows 7 reinstall) all my heavily-customised Indexing Options settings.
e.g. I have VERY customised list of file types that I have ticked in the ...
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Windows Backup — A very strange gobbling of disk space
I just tried out Windows Backup (7/64bit) and it behaved VERY strangely. I was backing up to a large array. The actual backup data was about 90gb total. When the backup completed the box said there ...
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Using Dropbox as a backup service
I'd like to use Dropbox as a backup service. By default, Dropbox will only synchronize files in the My Dropbox folder with my online storage. Can I configure it to synchronize from other locations, so ...
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Windows 7 and partial backups with Windows Backup
I'm running Windows 7 Enterprise:
systeminfo
OS Name: Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise
OS Version: 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
and trying to do a backup from the command line:
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