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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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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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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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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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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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We’ve seen a lot of questions about restoring Complete PC Restore images to different hardware. Here are some answers to the common questions. Q. Can you restore a Complete PC Backup image to a smaller drive if the amount of space used in the initial
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After our previous blog post on .ost files and Complete PC Backup , a customer contacted us about how he loses column settings, sort order, and synchronization filters if he manually deletes the .ost file. I asked Alon Brown, a Development Lead for Outlook,
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A Microsoft employee contacted us after he discovered that his 4-GB Microsoft Outlook .ost file was not present after he restored an image made by Complete PC Backup. Given the feature name “Complete PC Backup,” he expected that all files would be restored
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We frequently see this question in newsgroups from customers running different editions of Windows Vista. The table below is an excerpt from page 17 of the Windows Vista Product Guide. If you’d like an overview of all the backup features, see section
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Beta testers and even MS employees often ask us why restore points take up so much disk space and whether this can be adjusted. I also see the opposite problem reported—testers are surprised that so few restore points are being kept on the system. The
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If you didn't have a chance to attend TechEd, check out this video of Navjot Virk and Dan Stevenson presenting the new backup features and vastly improved offline files experience for Windows Vista. --Jill
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One of my fellow bloggers, Keith Combs, has published a great screencast of a CompletePC Backup demo in Windows Vista. You can check out his blog post and screenpast on Keith Combs' Blahg . --Jill
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