Building Better Software - One Line At A Time : Preparing for Vista Backup and Restore - Part 1 of 2

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re: Preparing for Vista Backup and Restore - Part 2 of 2

AlDegutis — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:37:38 GMT

Found some limitations or possible bugs when trying to use Vista's Complete PC Restore to restore to a different drive. More here:

http://professionalinsight.net/vista.aspx

- Al

re: Preparing for Vista Backup and Restore - Part 2 of 2

Terabyte — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:04:41 GMT

Tan,

Sorry, but what a joke. So let's really discuss what Vista's backup is. It's a home-user based "tool" that's so dummied down that for anyone with a few weeks worth of experience quickly finds unusable.

1) No ability to select what folders I as the computer owner wish to backup.

2) No security, encryption, or any other way to protect your data.

3) No way to manually script out backups.

For example, should I have 250GB worth of already backed up videos and digital photos and another 50GB of already backed up documents (who decides what are documents btw?) on DVDs (burned with Roxio or another tool) that are off-site, but I want to backup 20GB worth of additional files recently created but not yet burned to DVD, I get to backup up 270GB and include 250GB of junk I don't need backed up.

The MS PR machine has tried, though failed, to spin the Vista/Longhorn backup system into a boom but it's a bust. Unless you have HUGE external disks to backup your you system, your data isn't likely to get backed up. How about on my personal system with dual 500GB disks, I have to provide dual external 500GB disks to have enough room to backup a ton of junk I have no need to backup.

Sure, full restore is nice, but we've been able to do that with Ghost or numerous other apps for 10 years, but now in Vista/LHS you've removed our ability to simply backup EVERY file in the C:\critial folder. What a dumb solution.

I really wish you guys would make nice with Symantec and return ntbackup, even as an add-on, to Vista. Not just the .bkf restore tool that you said you wouldn't make, but the entire app including tape drive support (which your restore tool doesn't work with either).

This is just one more piece of proof that Vista is a home-user OS with no designs on the professional.

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