Compared to the advancement accoutrement that appear with antecedent versions of Windows, Vista’s Advancement and Restore Center, is a contentment – except for one baby problem: It can’t do a complete arrangement (image) advancement to addition computer on the network. In this commodity we apprentice a workaround to this limitation.
Backup and Restore Center
The Windows Vista Advancement and Restore Center alien to Windows users the adeptness to advancement your absolute computer: files, programs, settings, anthology – everything.
Running The affairs created a VHD book – an angel of your absolute C drive. In the accident of a annexation or adamantine deejay failure, your arrangement could be adequate to the exact accompaniment it was in back the aftermost advancement was taken (using the Windows Recovery Environment on your Windows accession DVD).
This VHD angel book would about be astronomic (the accumulated admeasurement of all files on your C drive), and so a area to abundance this book would charge to be called carefully. Unfortunately, the alone options presented to you were added adamantine disks in your arrangement (such as an centralized D drive or an alien USB drive) or a accumulating of bare DVDs.
An accessible blank was the adeptness to aback up beyond a Local Area Network, to addition computer such as to a book server or advancement server. Only Microsoft would be able to acquaint us why this advantage was omitted. Thankfully it has been added into Windows 7.
If your advancement administration requires that your Windows Vista arrangement be backed up beyond a network, and you’re not accommodating to carapace out for third-party software, such as Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image, again you’ll charge to use the abstruse Windows arrangement advancement account alleged wbadmin. wbadmin is a command-line tool, and so to use it you will apparently accept one of the afterward methods:
1. The Windows command prompt,
2. Writing a accumulation book (script), or
3. Automating the advancement application the Windows Task Scheduler
Given that best bodies who charge to aback up a arrangement won’t appetite to do it aloof once, and will added than acceptable accept a charge to do it on a approved (daily or weekly) basis, this tutorial will analyze the third option:
Automating a approved abounding arrangement advancement application the Windows Task Scheduler
To agenda a approved backup, we charge aboriginal accessible the Windows Task Scheduler. This is calmly amid by beat the Start button and accounting “task“:
We bang the Next button and are prompted for the name of the affairs we ambition to run, as able-bodied as any command-line arguments (parameters) we will to accommodate to the program.
We could browse for the program, but in this case it’s easier to artlessly blazon its name: wbadmin..
The command-line arguments we will specify in this archetype are:
alpha advancement -backuptarget:\\servername\sharename -include:c:
-user:MYNAME -password:MYPASSWORD -quiet
These options beggarly the following:
* alpha alpha the job (not now, but aback the assignment is scheduled, of course)
* advancement the job to alpha is a backup
* -backuptarget:\\servername\sharename The area to aback up to. This could be a simple Drive:Folder aisle (e.g. D:/Backups), or – in this case – the UNC aisle of a computer and arrangement aggregate folder.
* -include:c: The drives to accommodate in the backup. If you appetite assorted drives, abstracted them with commas (no spaces). i.e. -include c:,d:
* -user:MYNAME -password:MYPASSWORD The username and countersign appropriate to admission the alien ambition computer/folder on the network. (obviously, you alter MYNAME with your absolute username and MYPASSWORD with your absolute password.)
* -quiet Run the job after bidding the user for any information
There are abounding added options for the wbadmin program. These are all abundant on Microsoft’s TechNet folio (link below).
It is not all-important to specify annihilation in the Alpha in box:
It may be all-important to double-click on the anew created assignment to acclimatize some of the backdrop or conditions, specifically:
* On the General tab, you may ambition to ensure that the assignment runs alike if you are not logged in. If you do this, you will be prompted to accumulation the login accreditation – username and countersign – of the user that the assignment is to be run as.
* On the Altitude tab (if your computer is a laptop), you may ambition to accept to alone run the advancement assignment if the computer is acquainted into mains power.
The assignment will now run every Wednesday morning. You can additionally run it manually whenever you appetite by aperture the Windows Assignment Scheduler, analysis the assignment in the account and beat the Run button in the Actions area to the right.
Once the assignment has completed, you can cross to the arrangement computer/folder that you defined in the assignment settings and see the results. You will see a binder alleged WindowsImageBackup, and aural that a sub-folder with the aforementioned name as the computer you were abetment up. If you aback up several machines with this technique, you will see one sub-folder for anniversary computer. Aural anniversary sub-folder you will see a subfolder alleged Advancement with a date in its name. That is area your angel files are located, forth with some XML housekeeping files. The advancement files are accessible to identify, as they are abounding Gigabytes in admeasurement and accept a VHD extension.
Notes:
* More advice about the wbadmin affairs can be begin on either Microsoft’s TechNet folio or on the Wikipedia page.
* VHD files can be army and browsed (to restore alone files after accepting to restore the absolute drive) by application the baby and advantageous VHD Attach utility.
* When the assignment is run the afterward week, the antecedent backups will be automatically removed. Only one set of VHD files will be present in the WindowsImageBackup binder for anniversary computer at any accustomed time.
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