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The previous post referred to some basic backup/restore jargon. Now, let us investigate what the footprint of the DFS Replication service looks like. The following steps have been performed on a server running Windows Server 2008. Locate working directories
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Keith Combs just released a screencast about one of our team’s technologies: Windows Vista Complete PC Backup and Restore Screencast Windows Vista Complete PC backup is an utility that allows you to create a snapshot of your entire system and save it
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Storage team is bringing 8 sessions and 2 Hands-on Lab to Microsoft TechED IT Pro 2008! Karandeep Anand, Jason Buffington, Ram Kailasanathan, Drew McDaniel and Edwin Yuen will be hosting the sessions from the Storage side. Clustering and High availability
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A customer sent us a contribution to the Vista Backup and Restore Errors and Solutions table . Christine Fok added his innovative solution to the list: Error or Symptom Cause/Solution System Restore fails with the following error: The Restore point could
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We sometimes get people asking about the difference between VSS Full Backup and VSS Copy Backup in Windows Server 2008. Basically, for certain applications (such as Exchange), VSS Copy Backup preserves logs and VSS Full Backup truncate logs. Yes, we know,
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As part of equipping you around the new features provided in the Q2 rollup update for DPM 2007, the product team will be hosting a live chat session where you can ask your questions related to DPM 2007, the rollup, the upcoming SP1, or even provide suggestions
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Are the Backups secured? Yes . The Complete PC Backup (CPC) or Windows Server Backup (WSB) can be only invoked by a user belonging to either Administrators or Backup operators Group. § Disk: Backups are ACLed to be accessible only for only Administrators
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This is an update to the solutions table posted previously on this blog. Vista Backup team has been working with customers to troubleshoot common problems, but sometimes it’s a hard job – some error codes belong to other system components and are reflected
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Vista SP1 Backup & Restore contains many updates that improve reliability. Great effort has been put into improving the overall quality of File Backup, Complete PC Backup and System Restore. Many of those important changes may not be visible to users,
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For Server 2008 the VSS team invested a great deal in hardware shadow copy scenarios which you can read about here . Additionally significant work went into enhancing the APIs for writers and widening their adoption by other applications and components.
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One of our program managers, Christine Fok, wrote a great TechNet Magazine article on our backup technologies in Windows Vista. If you've wondered how to schedule a Complete PC Backup or restore individual files from the .vhd made by Complete PC Backup,
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Chat Topic: Backup Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 Wendy [MSFT] (Moderator): Welcome to today’s chat with the Complete PC Backup and System Restore Team team. We will try to answer as many questions as we can today. Participants should type their questions,
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The Vista Backup team has been helping troubleshoot backup-related problems reported in the public Windows Vista newsgroups. This has been a great learning experience for us, not only in working with customers but also understanding the real-world problems
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Customers frequently ask us how to manually extract files from zip files created by Backup. Though using the Restore Files wizard is the preferred method, there are times when you must extract files manually, such as when you are using a computer that’s
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I'm excited to announce two upcoming chats on some of the popular Windows Vista features owned by my team. On July 10, we'll answer questions about Offline Files in Windows Vista. On July 11, we'll answer questions about Backup, Complete PC Backup, System
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