Win 7 Backup

[Allen]

Has anyone tried the BU included with Win7? If so, what is your opinion.
Allen

 

[FiOS-Dave]

Has anyone tried the BU included with Win7? If so, what is your opinion.
Allen

Hi Allen,

I use it all the time. I also use it to create an image file.
I presume they will work, but I haven't needed to do a restore
or grab a file from the backup yet.

Dave

 

[Sparky]

I've done a restore from an image I saved to a separate partition.

Worked as advertised. Make sure you create the boot disk as well...

 

[housetrained]

Has anyone tried the BU included with Win7? If so, what is your opinion.
Allen

Well strangely, when using Backup which included about 60gig music files it
conked out every week. First time all went OK then second and third week
this happened. Noticed that it was taking ages to just back up the very
small differences. Left it alone and looked back in an hour or so later and
in both instances computer had crashed with a notice something like
"unexpected fault see your hardware vendor". I deleted the backup, removed
the 60gig music file and, touch wood, it's worked fine since then. Yesterday
I had cause to restore a solitary Publisher file and it worked just fine.
The 60gig file is now backed up manually.

 

[JimBob]

Hi Allen,
I really like the backup in this OS. I only have about 14g on my C drive and
the backup takes less than five minutes including the image file. Took less
than five minutes to put the image file back and worked just fine.

 

[yodap]

I find it to be slower than some third party imagers. Macrium Reflect free or Paragon for instance. But I use it because I believe you can never have too many back-ups.

 

[Van Chocstraw]

Has anyone tried the BU included with Win7? If so, what is your opinion.
Allen

Mighty slow stands out to me.

 

[Allen]

Well strangely, when using Backup which included about 60gig music files
it conked out every week. First time all went OK then second and third
week this happened. Noticed that it was taking ages to just back up the
very small differences. Left it alone and looked back in an hour or so
later and in both instances computer had crashed with a notice something
like "unexpected fault see your hardware vendor". I deleted the backup,
removed the 60gig music file and, touch wood, it's worked fine since
then. Yesterday I had cause to restore a solitary Publisher file and it
worked just fine. The 60gig file is now backed up manually.

I have over 200 Gb of music file (classical takes up space like you
wouldn't believe) and I'm an avid amateur photographer so I've lots of
picture files. I have a 500 Gb external drive devoted to music and
pictures. Part of my routine is to immediately backup all additions. As
a matter of fact, I have a second internal HD that contains basically
two section: music and pictures. The music section has a directory that
I capture music to. I immediately copy to the backup drive, and then
move them to the "keeper" director, thereby knowing I have a backup. I
don't want to get all those files involved in a daily backup routine. I
am going to give the Win BU immediately. After I posted my query, I
destroyed my general purpose Acronis BU drive, a two-month-old 1Tb
external drive. It was on a shelf 3.5 feet above the floor, right next
to the speaker with the volume control knob. While trying to adjust the
volume, the speaker got tangled and plunged the drive to the floor
_while running_. When I got everything back in place I tried to access
the driver, but it didn't show up on WinExplorer. I ran one of the
low-level HD programs and it appeared, along with a message saying that
it had to be formatted; I tried but al I got was a message saying, in
effect, "how do you think this thing can be formatted?" No backup is
100.000% safe. Oh, and thanks to everyone who replied. It's nice to have
an ng that hasn't been taken over by trolls and idiots--yet.
Allen