Win XP pro Sp2 System back up

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Roger

Hi,

I attempted to use windows back up tool today, mainly full system and some
files. Using the wizard it appeared only to let me use 'A' drive floppy.
Well there is far to much for floppies so I showed my E drive CDR in the
box, so I could copy it to Disc. It would not allow me , showing warning box
could not recognize path.

Any ideas please to overcome this.

Regards Roger
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Windows Backup does not backup directly to optical media. Backup to a
location on your hard drive and then use your CD or DVD burning software
to make a disk.

[Backing up to an external hard drive is much more convenient than
backing up to optical media.]
 
Roger said:
Hi,

I attempted to use windows back up tool today, mainly full system and some
files. Using the wizard it appeared only to let me use 'A' drive floppy.
Well there is far to much for floppies so I showed my E drive CDR in the
box, so I could copy it to Disc. It would not allow me , showing warning
box could not recognize path.

Any ideas please to overcome this.

Regards Roger
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No. ntbackup, being extremely retarded, will not put its file on anything
other than a hard drive or a floppy.

Leonard has told you how to do this.

But he didn't remind you that a full backup of the system necessarily
requires a certain amount of data on a floppy (and only on a floppy) disk as
well as an installation CD to restore the backup. I think that MS made only
a token effort to design a backup mechanism.

Also, you do realize that XP will only write to CDs? It will read from DVDs
all day long, but it lacks suitable programming for writing.

Jim
 
Jim said:
No. ntbackup, being extremely retarded, will not put its file on anything
other than a hard drive or a floppy.

Leonard has told you how to do this.

But he didn't remind you that a full backup of the system necessarily
requires a certain amount of data on a floppy (and only on a floppy) disk as
well as an installation CD to restore the backup.
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That is not true, at all. You are speaking of Automated System Recovery
(ASR), that may not be what the user wants to do at all. You can
backup the whole system without a floppy diskette and you can restore
the whole backup and System State to a basic installation without a
diskette, the floppy is *only* required for ASR.

John
 
"I think that MS made only a token effort to design a backup mechanism."

You may be right about that, but I don't see it in a negative light.

Microsoft Backup is similar to other built-in utilities, like disk
compression, CD burning and photo editing, that were added to provide a
basic level of functionality to users who do not have third-party
software and wouldn't know what to look for in a third-party product.
 
John John (MVP) said:
That is not true, at all. You are speaking of Automated System Recovery
(ASR), that may not be what the user wants to do at all. You can backup
the whole system without a floppy diskette and you can restore the whole
backup and System State to a basic installation without a diskette, the
floppy is *only* required for ASR.

John
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Well thank you 'all' for comments. I would like to back up my system, in
case it crashes etc. It is no problem to copy folders to CD via XP. But
would like to have current system on disc as I thought, from the wizard
program on XP. As would you agree it could take numerous floppies. How
would I go about also creating a boot floppy from xp.

Roger.
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Roger said:
Well thank you 'all' for comments. I would like to back up my system, in
case it crashes etc. It is no problem to copy folders to CD via XP. But
would like to have current system on disc as I thought, from the wizard
program on XP. As would you agree it could take numerous floppies. How
would I go about also creating a boot floppy from xp.

Roger.
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Do you have Windows XP Home or Windows XP Professional? ASR doesn't
work with the Home version. If you have XP Pro you can use ASR and you
only need one floppy diskette, the ASR floppy contains the disk
signatures, partition table and Plug & Play information, the rest of the
backup, or the actual backup itself, is stored on another storage media.
To restore using ASR you boot up with the Windows XP CD and when you
select to do an ASR restore you will be asked for the floppy diskette,
without this diskette the restore process cannot proceed.

Unless they are using Dynamic Disks most users will prefer to use other
disk imaging tools for their bare metal restore needs, tool like Acronis
True Image are usually preferred over ASR.

John
 
John John (MVP) said:
Do you have Windows XP Home or Windows XP Professional? ASR doesn't work
with the Home version. If you have XP Pro you can use ASR and you only
need one floppy diskette, the ASR floppy contains the disk signatures,
partition table and Plug & Play information, the rest of the backup, or
the actual backup itself, is stored on another storage media. To restore
using ASR you boot up with the Windows XP CD and when you select to do an
ASR restore you will be asked for the floppy diskette, without this
diskette the restore process cannot proceed.

Unless they are using Dynamic Disks most users will prefer to use other
disk imaging tools for their bare metal restore needs, tool like Acronis
True Image are usually preferred over ASR.

John
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Thank you John, I use XP pro SP2 I will bare your comments in mind and
think of using an imaging tool as quoted, or make a basic boot from a floppy
as I have XP CD.
Roger
 
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