Can you do multiple CompletePC backups?

[Guest]

Can you do multiple CompletePC backups and save the images to the save drive?
Would a 2nd backup image overwrite the first image already stored on the
drive?

Thanks for any response.

 

[Jill Zoeller [MSFT]]

The answer depends on your backup media. If hard disk, the answer is yes,
but only the latest backup is a .vhd file; the previous backups are
incrementals stored as shadow copies.

When you save to DVD, each backup is a full .vhd file.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your reply. My storage media is a Hard drive. However, when I did
a 2nd backup, and then tried to restore my PC to the first backup (by
rebooting the machine using the install CD and going into "restore CompletePC
backup"), the only option I see there was the 2nd backup (on that drive). The
1st backup seemed to have been overwritten.

 

[Jill Zoeller [MSFT]]

I haven't been through the steps myself in awhile, but I assume that the
restore defaults to the most recent backup. The older one should still be
there. Is there an "advanced" option to let you select a different version
of the backup?

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