Questions about Complete PC Backup & Restore

[pc nerd]

I've browsed thru books on Vista in the bookstores trying to find out more
about Complete PC Backup. The books don't tell me very much.

So, I have some questions.

I get incremental & differential backups confused. Does Complete PC Backup
allow full AND incremental AND differential backups ?

Can the backups be stored in a folder in the Documents folder ? Can the
backups be stored in a separate partition on the same hard drive or on a
separate hard drive or on external hard drive or DVD ?

Thank you.
David

 

[Bender]

The full, or complete backup does an image of your system.
You use it if you system needs to be reinstalled. Instead of reinstalling
Vista you do a restore from the image file created from the complete backup.

 

[pc nerd]

Please answer the following questions.

Thank you.

 

[Tyro]

For an explanation of full, incremental and differential backups see:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/136621

A complete PC backup is just that - a complete PC backup. You would not want
to place that backup on the same disk that it came from. How would you
recover if the disk fails and must be replaced? You must do a complete PC
backup to different storage media such as another disk or DVDs. A complete
PC backup is done to able to completely restore your computer to a given
point in time. A complete PC backup has no control over subsequent backups
be they incremental or differential. Vista's complete PC backup is a full
backup; Vista's file backup is an incremental backup.

I suggest you read this:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.09.backup.aspx

Tyro