Protect your files and PC with Windows 7 Backup

re: Protect your files and PC with Windows 7 Backup

BJorne — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:07:17 GMT

I am surprised to learn recently that incremental system image backup to network is not possible. Which makes Backup & Restore Center useless for my NAS. Why should be forced to have an external HDD? Is incremental system image backup supported if my map my network drive (assign a drive letter?)

re: Protect your files and PC with Windows 7 Backup

MTBMike — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:49:28 GMT

I also find lack of automatic purging or a retention schedule of old DataFile backups a big problem. I have a 1TB backup drive and have to manually clean out old data copies every week or 2. I know you've addressed this request in this tread, but want to confirm it's a big pain.

re: Protect your files and PC with Windows 7 Backup

Groovymarlin — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:37:05 GMT

I'm trying to use Win7's backup tool to back up my data files only to an external Seagate FreeAgent Desktop 250gig, which was working perfectly with Windows XP but doesn't seem to want to work with Win7 at all. I can view the disk and browse it and create files there, but every time I run Win7's backup tool, it fails at 28% with error code 0x81000039. Can you help, or direct me to a resource? I have tried everything and searched non-stop. No, I do not have the problematic Nvidia chipset (some people have solved similar problems by updating drivers for that chipset).

re: Protect your files and PC with Windows 7 Backup

Soudamini — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:36:17 GMT

Hi Dave,

You should be able to take multiple backups on the same external hard disk.

We directly dont support the backup to a folder inside the target.

But as a workaround, you can create a share on the target and use it.

re: Protect your files and PC with Windows 7 Backup

Soudamini — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:33:45 GMT

David,

Your system image would run an incremental backup on the destination(old), if the shadow copy for the source volumes still exist.

re: Protect your files and PC with Windows 7 Backup

Dave — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:49:50 GMT

I have more than one computer running windows 7 ultimate and one external usb hard drive large enough to store more than one backup image file from more than one computer. I would like to backup each one of my computers to the usb hard drive using backup in windows 7. Will it overwrite the mediaID.bin file from the first backup and make the data inaccessible? Also is there a way to specify a folder on the root of the usb external hard drive that the backup file can be in to better organize which data is from which computer?

re: Protect your files and PC with Windows 7 Backup

David — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:06:52 GMT

Soudamini,

Thanks for your reply. I decided to get a second internal hard drive for automated daily backups - I have pointed the backup wizard to that. It's always there, and will provide me with first level backup protection. For my external drives, I simply click on "Create a system image" in the Backup and Restore window to create an additional system image (including all data partitions) on the external drives.

Will "Create a system image" look at the destination drive and figure out what needs to be backed up (what is out of date) based soley on the image that is currently on the destination drive? Or should I blow away any old backup sets when I swap external drives?

Thanks again,

David

re: Protect your files and PC with Windows 7 Backup

Soudamini — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:33:30 GMT

Marc,

Restoring the files on a different computer with same architecture is supported. Please stay tuned to the upcoming recovering from system image blog.

re: Protect your files and PC with Windows 7 Backup

Soudamini — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:29:30 GMT

David,

You can change the backup targets for the same config, but we run full backup when you change the target. We take forward your feedback for future releases.

re: Protect your files and PC with Windows 7 Backup

DAvid — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:14:26 GMT

Hello,

I like to maintain two external backup drives. I keep one drive off site and one connected to my PC. About once a month I swap them. But the Windows 7 Pro backup wizard seems to only want to deal with one backup location or drive.

Is there a way that I can maintain two external backups as I have described?

When I swap drives, will Windows 7 Pro backup recognize that it's dealing with an older backup set and correctly bring it up to date with all the changes it's missing?

Thanks

David