[dba-Tech] Installing WIndows 7 Backup

Thanks for the tips and links, Jim. I shall follow them and see what
appeals most. Since I have a couple of large-capacity external drives, I
think I may go with any of your suggestions, but first I'll need to read up
on them.

Arthur


On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> 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?
>
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