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| Thread ID: 86218 | 2008-01-08 21:22:00 | Backup file - how to view? | Greg (193) | Press F1 |
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| 628476 | 2008-01-09 00:37:00 | .... | stu161204 (123) | ||
| 628477 | 2008-01-09 02:49:00 | Can't understand why not? What’s wrong with Windows backup??? :confused: I have been using Windows backup for years now backing up my data & have had no problems with it at all. (I have also restored a bit of data from it as well, with no problems either) Windows backup uses a proprietry format that needs the Windows backup software to recover files from it. This format changes between versions, so you need to use the same version to restore as the one you backed it up with. It also doesn't cope well with missing parts of an archive - if part of the archive is damaged, or you lose one part of a spanned set, it can often render the entire backup useless. It doesn't support encryption. If I recall correctly it can't do incremental backups (although I may be wrong on that one). The result can't be browsed in a normal file manager. You can't easily work with files inside the backup (compare to zipfiles as an example of a better way to do things). File/folder permissions aren't always correctly preserved. Reason enough? |
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| 628478 | 2008-01-09 03:08:00 | I would suggest before trying to restore the backup, making a copy of it on dvd or some other means incase it goes tits up. | plod (107) | ||
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