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| Thread ID: 140567 | 2015-11-03 07:05:00 | Windows 7 Backup & Restore | berryb (99) | Press F1 |
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| 1410887 | 2015-11-03 07:05:00 | I have never used Windows 7 Backup and Restore myself as I have used other commercial software. I have a client who uses it and only gets 6 or 7 backups before the external hard drive is full and he has to manually manage the backups and delete older ones. When I look at the backup data it is doing full backups each time. I have read this is normal and was going to add a script to automate the delete process. Thought I would test the script on my own hardware so configured a backup on my laptop and ran it several times over the last week and find it is creating incremental backups. I can find no option to enable or disable incremental backups and I created a standard backup. Ideas how to force either full or incremental backups or am I missing something here? Cheers |
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| 1410888 | 2015-11-03 21:48:00 | MS have had how many years to get this right ... 15++ ? Its not as is backup should be important enough to just work, is it :groan: Pro & Home versions of Win often had different versions of the inbuilt backup programs . I'm pretty sure , with full system image, you cant do incremental (via Win backup). You can deselect system image & only do file backups if you want. Or manually do a single system image & schedule file backups some more info here, Win SHOULD be managing the space used by backups by default :groan: There are options to help manage space on the USB HD , seems if not uncommon to have HD full issues. www.howtogeek.com |
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| 1410889 | 2015-11-03 21:56:00 | The other option is to setup a incremental robocopy file backup via batch file & schedule it. For me, that seemed more reliable than Win's built in backup programs (pre Win7) |
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| 1410890 | 2015-11-04 01:47:00 | I use Macrium Reflect Free for imaging. The newer Ver 6 does differentials and manages disk space as well. Also creates a schedule. Can't see how any MS backup could be better, unless you want to do file backups i.e. |
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