I have been backing up my Mac to a NAS on my home network with Time Machine for years and now I'm investigating doing the same with a Windows system. My only gripe with Time Machine is that if I want to copy a file from the NAS to another PC, I must first restore the entire backup to my Mac.
I've been looking, but I can't discern whether or not the built-in backup functionality for Windows produces a collection of files I can browse and copy to another computer or if it saves a kind of image of the system the way Time Machine does. Can files backed up using the built-in Windows software be browsed and copied individually from my NAS to a second computer? If not, is there a software solution that makes this possible?