Windows 7's backup is MUCH better than Vista's. You can select files you want to back up, or let Windows do it for you. The Windows Select basically backs up all users directories as well as making an image file of your hard drive which seems pretty nice. You also have the option to pick and choose files. You can select any disk attached to your PC for backup (the tool will recommend the largest removable drive it can find) or you can point it to a network resource using UNC. It also allows for entering username and password if needed for the network disk. Far superior IMHO. Tim
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 11:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mail server software On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:28 AM, John Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > The new server backup utility BLOWS DONKEYS! > You can't backup to a UNC path ... Sounds like it's just like Vista, then. The one that came with Vista: You can't even select/exclude individual files or folders. It's all or nothing. Given the amount of crap Vista loads on the hard drive (whether you want it or not), that's a huge increase in storage. And if someone has a large amount of quiescent data, that's gonna get backed up, even if you want to archive it separately. No tape drive support. I know lots of people are moving to disk-based backup, but not everybody has. It's not like Vista includes a coupon for new backup hardware in the box. It's a loss of functionality, any way you slice it. And no ability to specify backup target, other than by physical disk drive, as you noted. The thing was a freaking embarrassment. Freaking MS-DOS 3.3 came with a better backup utility! Anyone have a pointer to a list-of-improvements that have made it to Win 7 or 2008 R2? From what Mr. Schaefer says, there are some significant ones. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
