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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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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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We’ve been hard at work improving on the feature set of the DFS Replication service. Windows Server™ 2008 brings with it an exciting set of enhancements and new features. Here’s a look at what’s new in Windows Server™ 2008. SYSVOL Replication – Now on
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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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A customer recently sent us a screenshot of System Properties in Control Panel showing that his System Protection tab was missing. Launching the tab by its executable, SystemProtectionProperties.exe, did not launch the tab, either. In this case, the customer’s
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A reader asked us why restore points are so large in Windows Vista compared to Windows XP. He notes “The average XP restore point was around 50 MB. On Vista, restores points vary between 1 GB - 3 GB.” Why the big difference? Eduardo Laureano, the Program
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Many of our readers are familiar with how dual-booting Windows Vista and Windows XP can cause restore points to be deleted by Windows XP (see our recent blog post for details). What you might not know is that some third-party tools can also cause the
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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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A newsgroup customer noticed that an executable file he’d recently downloaded to his Documents folder disappeared after he used System Restore in Windows Vista to restore his computer’s system files to an earlier point in time. He asked why the executable
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