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I see that using feature is missing in Windows 10, or is it? What is
the best way to do regular backups and system images?

Ricardo Jimenez wrote in
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I see that using feature is missing in Windows 10, or is it? What is
the best way to do regular backups and system images?

"Best way" is relative.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/30117...eate-an-image-
backup-in-windows-10-and-restore-it-if-need-be.html
http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/h...-system-image-
windows-10-devices

On 29/01/2017 02:55, Ricardo Jimenez wrote:
I see that using feature is missing in Windows 10, or is it? What is
the best way to do regular backups and system images?


Backup Settings http://i.imgur.com/BNhxVDn.png

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On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 21:55:17 -0500, Ricardo Jimenez
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I see that using feature is missing in Windows 10, or is it? What is
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On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 21:55:17 -0500, Ricardo Jimenez wrote:

I see that using feature is missing in Windows 10, or is it? What is
the best way to do regular backups and system images?

For me, it is Macrium Reflect Free.

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On 28-Jan-2017 9:55 PM, Ricardo Jimenez wrote:
I see that using feature is missing in Windows 10, or is it? What is
the best way to do regular backups and system images?


I don't use it but it's in Settings/Update & Security/Backup

On 29-Jan-2017 8:50 AM, Sergey wrote:
On 28-Jan-2017 9:55 PM, Ricardo Jimenez wrote:
I see that using feature is missing in Windows 10, or is it? What is
the best way to do regular backups and system images?


I don't use it but it's in Settings/Update & Security/Backup

Forgot the recovery part.
and recovery

Restore in Win10 is Recovery.

Ricardo Jimenez wrote:
I see that using feature is missing in Windows 10, or is it? What is
the best way to do regular backups and system images?

The "Windows 7 Backup" feature in Windows 10, can be used for backup.

It's sole feature, is output to a format called .vhdx. This format
happens to support data backups holding more than 2.2TB of data.
However, on the other side of the coin, the format is really only
useful in Hyper-V in an emergency. There is little in the way of
"random access" to a VHDX, if you want to re-purpose backup data.
There are lots of ways to access VHD files, but a VHD cannot hold
more than 2.2TB of data. There are few ways of working with VHDX
files - VirtualBox isn't going to help there.

Many other tools, cannot handle infinitely large volumes. but,
they also allow random access to single files if you want a file.
Acronis and Macrium have "viewer" capability, so you can see
individual files held inside a backup.

Macrium Reflect Free is good enough for my purposes. I don't
do Differential or Incremental backups, just Full backups.
The free version supports Differential. The paid version
supports Differential and Incremental. Incremental is
convenient for reducing the time each day, to back up
new files, without having to back up the entire drive.

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

There are two download files. The installer is around 40MB. The
larger archive that is downloaded is for WINPE5 or WINPE10,
and those could be hundreds of megabytes. WinPE is used to make
a boot CD, and if you want to restore your OS partition,
you'll need the CD for that. So the Free version even gives
you the materials for the CD, and the Free version is
capable of "Bare Metal Restore" - putting your PC on a
new drive, if the old drive dies suddenly. Many backup tools
support Bare Metal Restore - even Windows 7 Backup can do that,
as long as you have a Windows disc to boot later on to access
the restore process.

Paul

On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 21:55:17 -0500, Ricardo Jimenez
wrote:

I see that using feature is missing in Windows 10, or is it? What is
the best way to do regular backups and system images?

For me it is virtualizing the whole system (VMware Player) and copy
the whole machine daily. Machine is running from an encrypted file
container (Veracrypt), so it`s copying every day for 45 min (200 GB is
the fixed size of the encrypted container). Performance is very good
(VM with 10 GB RAM on a Dell workstation with 24 GB RAM). Six people
are working at the same time on this VM.
Virtualizing makes migrating easy, because the old and new system can
run parallel during transition.

Regards

Michael