Windows 10 C Drive Backup and Recovery

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albert

March 07, 2017, 08:43:41 PM
Quick bit of sharing.

I was looking for an imaging app to take an image of my C drive so when I install some nonsense driver or bad app I can revert back to a working version of the disk.

I tried a few commercial products but they ebbed towards a full image of the drive, quite often not very compressed, and my drive is 500GB.

Then I found a way to do this in windows 10 itself:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3011736/windows/how-to-create-an-image-backup-in-windows-10-and-restore-it-if-need-be.html

My happy and stable <50GB C Drive is now backed up on an external drive and so are the recovery and system partitions. Theoretically if I botch the drive again I can recover it in the system recovery troubleshooting menu within windwow 10 at boot time even if windows won't boot fully or even if the recovery is corrupted I can get into the recovery tool via a boot USB stick and recover from the external drive.

Seems all very simple.

Cheers,

Bert
Cheers, Bert

smilodon

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March 07, 2017, 09:03:48 PM
My To Do list has - sort out a Windows 10 back up and recovery - on it. That task is hopefully going to be a lot easier now. Cheers.
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Gandalf

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March 09, 2017, 01:20:09 PM
Veeam endpoint backup is free and works well. Been using it for a few months now, though not tried a restore yet (no time!) but it's easy to use and you can create a recovery ISO and store the backup on an external drive.
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albert

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March 09, 2017, 01:32:34 PM
Quote from: Gandalf;422054Veeam endpoint backup is free and works well. Been using it for a few months now, though not tried a restore yet (no time!) but it's easy to use and you can create a recovery ISO and store the backup on an external drive.

I will try this as well. I liked the simplicity of the integrated tool. But it doesn't backup to my NAS and teh backup failed a few times, which I am putting down to my front facing USB ports. I'm a little scared to test recovery without another backup image frmo another app in place.
Cheers, Bert

Whitey

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March 11, 2017, 01:24:40 PM
Quote from: Gandalf;422054Veeam endpoint backup is free and works well. Been using it for a few months now, though not tried a restore yet (no time!) but it's easy to use and you can create a recovery ISO and store the backup on an external drive.

This works really well.  It's been doing the backup on the dMw server since Beta and on all of my home PC's.  Restores of individual files are quick and easy as is full restore from USB boot.

albert

#5
March 11, 2017, 03:24:00 PM
Veeam... class app. Thanks, it backed up my C Drive to my Lima with about 55% compression and I set a schedule to do it each week.
Cheers, Bert

faust82

#6
July 15, 2017, 12:01:59 AM
Quote from: Gandalf;422054not tried a restore yet

An unverified backup isn't a backup :)

I have nothing of value on my C drive. I remapped all important folders to other drives, and a fresh install is done in half an hour with Win10.
My devices all run cloud backup to Jottacloud, a Norwegian provider bound by Norwegian privacy laws. In other words, the EU and NSA can sod off :)
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TeaLeaf

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July 15, 2017, 10:07:30 AM
I still run Acronis for my backups.   Been running it for quite a few years and it just seems to work, and has some nice tools to recover on other systems too, so you can backup from one PC and restore to another PC even if it has a different hardware configuration.  My schedule is:

Acronis runs this schedule for me:
  • Weekly full OS backup (C: drive)
  • Daily OS incremental backup, keeping 3 full data sets (3 weeks) then dumping anything older
  • Weekly full data backup (drives other than C)
  • Daily incremental data backup
  • All backups are verified immediately post backup
  • All backups are then copied to a separate HDD which only holds copies of backups
  • All original Acronis backups are also then copied to a NAS
  • Acronis also copies my Google Drive & Dropbox (which host personal & business data) as part of this routine
Yes I have tried a full restore, even to a different hardware config and they work.

All this might seem a little OTT, but I've personally experience the perfect storm of three drives failing within a single 24 hour period, which meant that my live data, backup and off-site backup all went down the Sir Thomas Crapper.  Hence what I do now!
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faust82

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July 15, 2017, 10:16:22 AM
This is why I back up all my files to cloud.
Also, a mere sync won't do, it has to be backups. If you only do sync, you're not protected against accidental or malicious deleting, only against drive loss. Delete or encrypt a file on drive, then the damage gets synced too.

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