Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Jul 24 09:07:47 CDT 2013
Hi Arthur: I wish I could help you but I use another backup...to be honest I never knew Windows 7 had a backup; never even looked. As it is just a station, for quick backups I have been dumping to a Cloud drive (GoogleDrive and the NSA may need to look at them), for more extensive backups I have been using ShadowCopy as it does a non intrusive backup while you work and finally, I use DriveImageXML, DIX which makes a image of the entire drive (if you use a DIX backup from a DVD it will do a complete drive copy, boot tracks and all), initially to a portable drive but finally to my main backup server. DIX is good in the case of a catastrophic failure as it can creates a one hundred percent image. The reason I would not trust a Windows backup is because the backup is version (distro) dependent (DIX is self-contained (backup/restore/view) and is static), a full Windows backup does not backup all the files (it doesn't touch protected or running files), it presumes that your Windows is actually working and finally, I like being able, in the case of a full Drive-Image backup copy, being able to easily cherry-pick any file right out of the image file. No major company would ever trust a Windows Backup system. I have seen Clonezilla being used as it can backup all systems, Mac, Linux and Windows and it can even run as a server controller for a network doing a full over-night backup, but it does take a bit of effort to setup and configure. GoogleDrive (Mac/Windows): https://drive.google.com/#my-drive ShadowCopy (Windows all recent versions): http://www.runtime.org/shadow-copy.htm DriveImageXML (Windows all recent versions): http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm Clonezella: (Everything): http://clonezilla.org/ Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 6:06:53 AM Subject: [dba-Tech] Installing WIndows 7 Backup This is very peculiar. I've backed up my main drive several times before, but now when I try to do it, Windows 7 tells me it's not installed, and that to install it I should go to Control Panel and select Install and from there select it and it will install. But I can't find it in the list. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place. I looked in Windows Features. Can anyone help me find it? -- Arthur Cell: 647.710.1314 Prediction is difficult, especially of the future. -- Niels Bohr _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com