Vista Backup

We are currnetly using Vista on a few of our machines and run a scheduled backup every night. Is there a way to do a full backup each night and replace the existing one rather than doing an incremental backup. The machines that are running XP do this no problem but the Vista machines create a new folder each time which is using a large amount of space on the drive.

http://www.maximumpcguides.com/sched...ete-pc-backup/

Also, look at the second screenshot in this next article: (This is not the
task scheduler.)
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...es/backup.aspx

If that little checkbox is not selected (I'm sure there is an associated
registry entry somewhere.) then all your backups will be incremental after
the first full backup. (Unless the backup is over 30 days old.) The only way
to access this checkbox is to schedule your backups through the backup
scheduling wizard.

The wbadmin command looks at the parameter (checkbox) above to determine if
a full or incremental backup is to be performed. Unfortunately, it is not
part of the wbadmin command that you can maniuplate.

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Another option is to use the elevated command before performing the backup:
wbadmin delete catalog

If Vista backup does not see a catalog, it will assume a full backup is
required. (Just not sure how this will work with multiple machines backing
up to the same drive.)




"steverashi" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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Developing a foolproof backup system for any PC is a very exacting process.
(I've been setting up backup systems for home and business for almost 30 years)

There is NO WAY you can have a good backup if it's on the same drive as the OS.
At least two drives are required. Or, your main drive and some other suitable media.
A backup to a second partition on the main drive is NO backup at all when the drive squalls, balls and smokes! YES, that really does happen!

A Second Drive is required for a really safe backup. That can be another internal hard drive, or an external drive. It can even be a burned Image of your OS drive, on a DVD.

But whatever the backup media, it should be able to do a full restore to a new HD, in case that the original drive is no longer operable.

I've been using Ghost since it was first released in 1997, long before it was purchased by Symantec. (Norton)

I can do quickie backups of my C: partition to my D: partition in just over five minutes. That's a compressed Image File of C:. I can store many such images on my D: drive that's four times the size of my C: drive. (Same drive, two partitions.)

If something happens on my C: drive that a System Restore can't fix, I do a quick "Image to Partition" Restore and in about six minutes my C: drive is restored and I'm back in operation.

So what do I do if my main HD totally shoots craps?
WELL, once a week I do a Disk Image of C: to a DVD. Ghost puts itself on the DVD, in the boot sector, thus making my restore DVD boot to Ghost.
Toshiba's System Restore DVD is made this way, using Norton's Ghost.
I can boot up my system with that DVD and do my Restore, to a brand new HD if necessary.

For many years I've repeated the saying, "The only bad backup is the one you decided NOT to make".

If you want a FREE program to do full disk backups, the "MaxBlast" or "SeaTools" programs are the ticket. They are almost identical and written by "Acronis True Image" and both are available for download from the Maxtor or Seagate web sites. I've tested both to make bootable backups of Vista Ultimate, and they work just fine.

Good Luck,
The Shadow

Did you just have an urge to speak, or did this have something to do with
the OP?


"TheShadow" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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"Mark H" <jmhonzell@xxxxxx> wrote in news:#m3BFxN7IHA.4864
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Yea, he was explaining how to do backups better with the right tools for
the job. I use Acronis True Image instead of Ghost to do the same thing. I
keep a backup on a second HDD and an external USB HDD.

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...cts/trueimage/

In response to "The Shadow". All backups are onto a seperate machine which is then backed up to an external HD. The problem is that the Vista backups are taking up a lot of space. The XP machines that backup replace the existing one. The Vista machines, which we have 4, do an incremental backup. We don't backup the entire machine just a selection of folders.