Making copies of data on Windows so that the copies may be used to restore the original after a data loss event, or for historical retention.
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Windows 8 - What all and how should I backup?
So last month my HD crashed and I lost almost everything I had. Now, I keep regular backups. I store everything on the cloud.
For my HD backup, I use an external hard drive and create a system image ...
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Central backup with windows server 2012 standard
Today i read an article about backing up clients on a windows 2012 essential server,
declaring this as an essential exclusive feature. Can anyone describe me how to backup clients on a windows 2012 ...
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vista complete PC restore complains my new drive is too small, but the destination is bigger than the source partition
Tryng to do a Vista complete PC restore from an image made of a 450GB system partition C:.
This C: partition is inside a 2TB HDD with the following partition setup
[Hidden DELL 78MB ...
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SBS 2008 Backup fails to configure
I have a Windows Small Business Server 2008 Standard which refuses to configure its backup. I'm using the SBS Console and running through the Wizard which sees and formats the drives and appears to ...
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TrueCrypt and Windows backup, what works and what doesn't?
On the Truecrypt docs->limitations section it states that
The Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service is currently supported only for partitions within the key scope of active system encryption (e.g. ...
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Make system image of windows 8, excluding documents, just system and programs
I'm running windows 8 64bit and wanted to know how I can backup my system - JUST the current state of the system AND the programs that are installed.
I do NOT want to backup all my ...
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Backup but leave old versions of files on server
I have recently asked a question about backups but now I have different, similar one.
I need to backup on my server, but leave files, new versions, and old ones. The backup should go in one direction ...
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Is there a way to have Windows 8 perform automatic image and file backup of different folders to different drives?
I have several 2 TB drives that have almost 2 TB of unique data each (well more than 1 TB each) and lots of available backup drives for Windows 8 Pro 64.
When I use the File Backup in Control Panel ...
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Windows Backup failing due to false folder reference
I have setup Windows Backup on Windows 7 64 bit. The backup copies files from the C drive (and the system image) to a network location. There are NO references to other drives when I go through the ...
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Completely wipe all Windows 7 backup & restore settings
How can I completely wipe all setting of Windows 7 backup & restore feature?
Currently it looks like this:
And I want to return to this:
How this is possible?
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1answer
219 views
How to recover Firefox and Chrome bookmarks after upgrade from Windows Vista to 8
I upgraded a laptop from Windows Vista to 8, doing a format & re-install first. Before the format, I used both Windows Backup and Easy Transfer (7) first. I imported the user accounts into ...
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What kind of “personalisation” does sysprep remove exactly?
I intend to move all data from my old laptop to a new one. I will be following "method 3" from this guide:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/135077-windows-7-installation-transfer-new-computer.html
...
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1answer
187 views
Backup Win 2008R2/2012 on rotating external disks
I have 2 external drives. I would like to rotate the drives each week, so one week, I want to backup to Drive-A, next week to Drive-B and then next week back on Drive-A etc.
I see that Win ...
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Does Windows 7 backup back up the same files over and over or only the ones that have changed since the last backup? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does built in Windows 7 backup perform differential (incremental) backups?
The drive I use to store Windows 7's daily backup archive is getting full and I am wondering ...
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2answers
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Restoring a Windows XP NTBackup file (.bkf) file on Windows 8
Is there a way to read a BKF file from Windows XP using Windows 8? I tried installing the Windows 7 restore only pkg from the Microsoft web page (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974674), but the ...
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1answer
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Preserve files in a folder using cloud service GDrive using a type of version control? Is this possible? [closed]
I had to recently drop Crashplan for my cloud backups because uploading from Perth, Australia was too slow, and opted to go with Google Drive, which is uploading about 10 times faster.
Unfortunately ...
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Windows 7 Backup System Restore problems
My mom's computer is acting up and it seems to tie back to VSS but i can't figure out what the problem is. It's a Dell running windows 7 Home Premium SP 1.
The first symptom I noticed is that Windows ...
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1answer
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How to backup programs without risking to restore into a corrupt system [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Backup an installed software
I have a newly installed SSD in my system (with OS etc installed on it), but I'm not too happy with the boot up time (1 min 15 s). So I am ...
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2answers
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Making a complete Image of the computer [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Creating an image of my hard drive
is there any way to create a complete back-up of the computer(including local disk C) so that in case of any formatting we can just ...
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1answer
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What happens to the integrity of a Windows 7 backup when an older backup period is deleted?
When I manage my Windows 7 Backup's disk usage through the "Manage space used by this backup" and then "View backups..." options, I see two backup periods.
That report implies I will free up 1.14 ...
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1answer
194 views
File History vs Backup & Restore
What is the difference between Backup & Restore that was present on Windows 7 and the "File History" feature on Windows 8?
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Which files to select when doing a Windows 7 system restore from external hard drive?
I have an ASUS computer running Windows 7 Home Premium and I am attempting to test my system backup/restore. I created the recovery DVD and system backup images (from the tools included with the OS) ...
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Is there a canonical list of files/directories/file types that can be safely excluded from Windows 7 Backup?
I'm looking into speeding up my Windows 7 backup. I have it creating a system image of my system drives/partitions (320GB in total; about ~40GB free [lots of Steam games...]) once a week.
I have ...
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1answer
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How does online backup work in case of hardware failure?
I am talking about any service out there (BackBlaze, Carbonite, etc...). Consider the following scenario that actually happened last week.
Power went out and my NTFS drive (connected to a NAS of ...
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External HDD 1 Terabyte - exFAT or NTFS [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why should I use exFAT over NTFS on removable media?
So yeah, i'm looking for the best/FASTEST/SAFEST File System known..My OS is Windows 7 (possibly Windows 8 Pro in ...
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1answer
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Change User Folder
So I had a backup and when restored it to my computer the User folder didn't actually change to use the backed-up folder, so now I have an owner folder (which is pretty much empty) and a my_username ...
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Backup Operating System with Softwares Installed [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Looking for a software capable of cloning a System drive?
I am using a Dell Laptop with Windows 7 installed,as i have installed softwares like photoshop, Netbeans and ...
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Unable to delete Windows System Image
I'm on Windows 8 Pro (64bit) and I'm trying to configure an Image Backup using the strangely named "Windows 7 File Recovery" tool.
To start with, I want to delete any existing system images from my ...
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1answer
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Deleting pagefile.sys on shutdown
I have a Windows XP machine (it is a VM running in Xen) that I would like to backup. I have enabled ClearPageFileAtShutdown by following MS KB 314834. If I cleanly shutdown the XP machine and then ...
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1answer
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Is there a reason to use library backups if I'm backup up full disks?
In Windows Backup I can backup libraries or whole drives (or specific folders). I want a complete backup of all relevant drives. After selecting the drives, there's still the option to backup ...
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1answer
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Retrieve folder from WindowsImageBackup without original PC
I've had to RMA a faulty laptop recently and backed up everything apart from 1 file that I forgot about.
The file will still exist when I get my laptop back as I took a full C: drive image using the ...
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1answer
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Windows Back Up thinks drive is disconnected
My netbook runs Windows 7 Starter. I have successfully backed this up in the past. I may have upgraded the external drive I used for backups subsequent to this.
Now when I go to Control ...
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1answer
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Back up windows server 2008 to external disk
I've got a windows server 2008 box that I want to backup (the entire disk) to external USB hard drives (I've got 2 lying around so I can swap between them and add more over time).
I've tried using ...
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1answer
443 views
Incremental backup in Windows 8 [closed]
is the process of taking Incremental backup of Windows 8 similar to windows 7?
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How to show progress of “File History” in Windows8?
By using the 'File History' of Windows8 I can backup my stuff (or rather, my 'libraries'). I enable the feature and then ... the magic happens in the background.
How can I see the progress? How many ...
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Windows Action Center notification icon says Backup in Progress when no backup is occurring
How can I get Windows Action Center's little flag in the notification area to stop saying "Backup In Progress" on Windows 8? It's driving me nuts. I disabled the Windows Backup service completely and ...
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How do I make a backup of Windows 8?
Coming from MacOS X (with Time Machine) back to Windows 8, I'm wondering how I can make good (useful) backups of Windows 8 and my data?
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Explain Windows 8 Windows Store AppData/packages and what to backup
Can someone explain the structure of %localappdata%\Packages*package id*\ in Windows 8 so I can get a better idea of what files should be backed up and what files shouldn't be. Specifically what ...
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Backup software that supports differential backup or syncing? (rsync interface maybe?) W7 [closed]
I am looking for an incremental / differential / sync backup utility that does not require a full backup to begin.
I have a TB external drive with backups of pictures and movies, about 800GB, and I ...
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1answer
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Two exact copies of folder using FTP
I'm looking for any solution that will allow me under Windows to emulate functionallity similar to Dropbox or rsync using FTP protocol only.
What I need, is any piece of software (good enough in your ...
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2answers
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Raid-3 like software backup tool
I have a lot of data (about 7 TB), stored across multiple hard-drives with varying sizes. I would like to have a backup of that data to be safe against drive failure. A RAID is not a good option for ...
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1answer
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Should I be running my scheduled backups as SYSTEM or as the our domain admin?
I have a daily backup which is scheduled through the Task Scheduler. It failed with a strange error code last night, but I was able to search and find a blog post with how to avoid the error in the ...
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How exactly does the Backup and Restore utility in Windows7 work? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does built in Windows 7 backup perform differential (incremental) backups?
I am asking this question because the drive I have allocated for said utility to use as backup ...
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1answer
320 views
Retrieve serial number backup w/o booting from external
I have a back up copy of my Windows XP operating system in an external hard drive ever since I upgraded to Windows 7. I cannot find the XP serial number to install on another computer. I can access ...
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Can I restore a Windows 7 backup made in 32 bit after installing Windows 7 64 bit
I'm a Mac user helping out a friend, so I don't know much about Windows. They have a Windows Home Server that their PC backs up to. The docs for Windows 7 64 bit say that it needs to be a clean ...
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Win7 backup fails when using a non-standard profile location
After following this guide to relocate my User directories to another drive, the Windows 7 backup utility does not pick up the new location.
The backup completes successfully but warns that some ...
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How can I fix the MBR after cloning a Windows XP installation?
I have a dual boot system on a 320GB HDD that contains 3 partitions. The first partition contains a Windows XP installation for tests, the second partition holds another XP install for daily use. The ...
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Can't attach VHD
I think I may be experiencing that horrible moment when the backup fails. Somewhere hiding on this VHD is an SQL database I need to extract. This is from a Windows backup, not a virtual machine. I'm ...
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Force Windows Backup to Create a New Backup Set
Situation:
Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit edition
Desktop computer
Backing up to an external USB drive
Once a month, I make a full system image to another external USB drive. How can I tell Windows to ...
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1answer
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Batch Script for backup
I need a batch script that will zip up all files in a particular directory and save it to another directory in a YYYY/MM/DD-HH/MM/SS format.
I've seen things similar but not sure about this.
Thanks!
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