NessPJ
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Hey guys,
As many of you may have noticed that compared to Windows 8, Microsoft has removed the 'Windows 7 File recovery' software in Windows 8.1 and renamed it to 'System Image Backup'.
The major letdown for this tool is (imo), that its no longer possible to easily schedule your backup tasks this way.
On the other hand i really like how i will be able to execute my backup needs using Windows only tools (also as i have a few years of experience with both Acronis and Symantec, but even after intensively using and suggesting features over at the Acronis website/forums the company just won't listen to its customers).
Now i found this article online that will still let you set up a scheduled task for backups in Windows 8.1:
How to schedule a Windows 8.1 System Image backup (step-by-step) ? Pureinfotech
Very interesting and even though i can dissect the given command lines etc., i still think you could obtain much more usability if all of the options available to you were actually presented in a GUI or whatnot.
Does anyone know if such a 3rd party tool excists? Come to think of it, seeing as the output would simply be the creation of a task from the powershell command line or altering an excisting Windows task, im thinking this type of tool would not even be hard to make.
Anyhow, apart from the above question, what i would like to achieve is the following:
My backup folder is in: E:\Backup\
Monday: Full system image from my C:\ drive + Seperate Full system image from my D:\ drive
Wednesday: Incremental image with changes of my C:\ drive + Seperate Incremental image with changes of my D:\ drive
Friday: Incremental image with changes of my C:\ drive + Seperate Incremental image with changes of my D:\ drive
Sunday: Move all of the images to my E:\Backup\Archive\ folder
Have this schedule repeat on a weekly basis (i will manually review and delete the images in my archive folder....this method is simply to prevent having no image at all when the backup task on Monday crashes or the PC is interrupted during that time).
Does anyone know if this would be possible?
Yes, i know i have done this in the past using Acronis but their scheduler is:
A. Resource hogging
B. Simply does not work and save the configuration exactly the way i want it to (Acronis 2014 is even worse then Acronis 2010 which i was using before).
I hope this topic will share some nice backup experiences/configurations people have and/or inform people about the off-the-shelf possibilities Windows 8.1 already has.
As many of you may have noticed that compared to Windows 8, Microsoft has removed the 'Windows 7 File recovery' software in Windows 8.1 and renamed it to 'System Image Backup'.
The major letdown for this tool is (imo), that its no longer possible to easily schedule your backup tasks this way.
On the other hand i really like how i will be able to execute my backup needs using Windows only tools (also as i have a few years of experience with both Acronis and Symantec, but even after intensively using and suggesting features over at the Acronis website/forums the company just won't listen to its customers).
Now i found this article online that will still let you set up a scheduled task for backups in Windows 8.1:
How to schedule a Windows 8.1 System Image backup (step-by-step) ? Pureinfotech
Very interesting and even though i can dissect the given command lines etc., i still think you could obtain much more usability if all of the options available to you were actually presented in a GUI or whatnot.
Does anyone know if such a 3rd party tool excists? Come to think of it, seeing as the output would simply be the creation of a task from the powershell command line or altering an excisting Windows task, im thinking this type of tool would not even be hard to make.
Anyhow, apart from the above question, what i would like to achieve is the following:
My backup folder is in: E:\Backup\
Monday: Full system image from my C:\ drive + Seperate Full system image from my D:\ drive
Wednesday: Incremental image with changes of my C:\ drive + Seperate Incremental image with changes of my D:\ drive
Friday: Incremental image with changes of my C:\ drive + Seperate Incremental image with changes of my D:\ drive
Sunday: Move all of the images to my E:\Backup\Archive\ folder
Have this schedule repeat on a weekly basis (i will manually review and delete the images in my archive folder....this method is simply to prevent having no image at all when the backup task on Monday crashes or the PC is interrupted during that time).
Does anyone know if this would be possible?
Yes, i know i have done this in the past using Acronis but their scheduler is:
A. Resource hogging
B. Simply does not work and save the configuration exactly the way i want it to (Acronis 2014 is even worse then Acronis 2010 which i was using before).
I hope this topic will share some nice backup experiences/configurations people have and/or inform people about the off-the-shelf possibilities Windows 8.1 already has.
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