Backup in Win7

"Sparky" wrote in message ...

"Bigguy" wrote in message
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Walter R. wrote:
I have been using Win XP in conjunction with Acronis Home Image. Acronis
creates complete drive images that can be restored in the future.

Will the new backup facility built into Win 7 make Acronis redundant? Can
Win 7 actually create storable and retrievable disk images of my C drive,
that will restore my system at a later date ?

That would be great.

Thanks for any input

Yes it works.

I used it when I replaced/upgraded the HDD in my Laptop.

Win 7 backup to external USD HDD image.

In with new HDD, boot from restore CD.

Image copied back to new HDD - all present and fully working, just like
with Acronis.

Approx 45min to restore 22GB image.

Happy me.



Guy

Great Discussion , I was just wondering about all this myself.
It looks like the image to external works , does it provide an option for
creating a partition for the images ?
If not , is it possible to save the image to an existing partition ?
Thanks


There's no option for creating partitions, it's just a basic imaging facility.
Here's the operation from start to finish:
http://www.admin1.myzen.co.uk/Win7BackUP.htm

"Dave-UK" Here@home wrote in message
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"Sparky" wrote in message
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"Bigguy" wrote in message
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Walter R. wrote:
I have been using Win XP in conjunction with Acronis Home Image.
Acronis creates complete drive images that can be restored in the
future.

Will the new backup facility built into Win 7 make Acronis redundant?
Can Win 7 actually create storable and retrievable disk images of my C
drive, that will restore my system at a later date ?

That would be great.

Thanks for any input

Yes it works.

I used it when I replaced/upgraded the HDD in my Laptop.

Win 7 backup to external USD HDD image.

In with new HDD, boot from restore CD.

Image copied back to new HDD - all present and fully working, just like
with Acronis.

Approx 45min to restore 22GB image.

Happy me.



Guy

Great Discussion , I was just wondering about all this myself.
It looks like the image to external works , does it provide an option for
creating a partition for the images ?
If not , is it possible to save the image to an existing partition ?
Thanks

There's no option for creating partitions, it's just a basic imaging
facility.
Here's the operation from start to finish:
http://www.admin1.myzen.co.uk/Win7BackUP.htm



Many thanks ! Looking forward to trying it out in the near future...

"Dave-UK" Here@home wrote in message
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"Anthony Buckland" wrote in message
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I'm not clear whether you actually applied the restore procedure
and successfully restored your image. Did you, if so did your system
function properly after restoring, and (again if so) how long did the
restore take (in this case, knowing your processor and R/W speeds
would help). Thanks, from a long-time Acronis user who expects
sooner or later to face this choice.


I created a system image with Win7 some weeks ago.
I created a repair disk at the same time.
I booted from the repair disk about an hour ago and restored
the image I had created some weeks ago.
When the restore was finished the system rebooted.
I then had a system that was some weeks old but fully functional.
The image was 22 G/B and took 25 minutes to complete.

To bring my system back to today's state I booted my BartPE disk
and restored from my DriveImage XML (freeware) backup which I
prefer as I have used that system for years and it works every time.


Thanks, just what I wanted to know.

"Dave-UK" Here@home wrote in message
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"Christian Barmala" wrote in message
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I booted from the repair disk about an hour ago and restored the image I
had created some weeks ago. When the restore was finished the system
rebooted. I then had a system that was some weeks old but fully
functional.

Did you have to reactivate Windows 7 or did it recognize that the
hardware is still the same after restore?

Christian

No, I didn't have to reactivate Windows 7.

That's the thing about images, the entire contents of the
partition are restored, down to the last bit. If W7 knew
about anything when the image was made, it will still
know exactly the same after restoration. The only
things I've ever had to deal with that represent a change
is that such things as the antivirus database are suddenly
out of date, and changes to data have been lost.