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Backup permissions failure
Hello. I have a Duo v2 that I've never really used properly. I've finally put some time into figuring out how to do proper backups from my Windows 7 PC on my home network. I have run several tests cr...
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A NAS-based backup of a Windows machine will not back up files you can only access when Windows User Account Control pops up nor files that are in use (like an outlook .pst file). A much better way to back-up a Windows machine is to use something on the Windows side that is capable of creating a shadow copy and then backing that up and then the NAS as the target for the backup file(s). The old Backup and Restore (Windows 7) is still around, but rather limited (especially no version control). I and StephenB both use Acronis True Image, but there are other options available, including free ones.
Sandshark wrote:
A NAS-based backup of a Windows machine will not back up files you can only access when Windows User Account Control pops up nor files that are in use (like an outlook .pst file).
Correct. And much of the Windows operating system itself is protected from access.
Sandshark wrote:
I and StephenB both use Acronis True Image, but there are other options available, including free ones.
Yes. One thing to think about is whether you want to back up user documents, or if you want to back up the entire PC. I back up the entire PC, so I can recover everything if the PC is compromised by malware or if the C drive fails.
Thank you for your comments and suggestions. Backing up my user docs is essential, but I've learned from experience that some software creates it own little data files (such as Photoshop catalogue files) that it doesn't tell you about and stores them in hard-to-find places. If you don't know about them, they're lost when the inevitable crash occurs. Then there's the pain of finding and re-installing all those quirky programs. There's also Outlook, with all your contacts and historical correspondence. Just setting up my email accounts again is a great challenge for me. A simple solution to all this is highly desirable. I'll take a look at Acronis . . .
Usernameinuse wrote:
I'll take a look at Acronis . . .
If you want to be able to do a bare-metal restore, then you'd want an image backup. This creates an image file (in the case of Acronis, the extension is .tib). It can make incremental image backups - my configuration does a full-image backup every 8 weeks or so, and does an incremental image backup every week in between.
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