Vista Backup

[Gyula Mester]

In XP the backup feature was very extensive, highly configurable and
trustworthy. It was the only OS in each I had to do disaster recovery and I
can prove from experience that it works (Windows Server versions use the
same). You could schedule several types of backup (Normal, Differential,
incremental, etc) and could get NT backup to compress the catalogue, which
if you have lots of highly compressible documents (DOCs, etc) can reduce the
size of the catalogue quite considerably.

Yesterday I asked Vista to do a full backup on the new HD. It only gave me 1
option, which was to choose the destination (the new HD). I did not find
options for scheduling, types of backup and compression. This morning after
the backup has finished the backup folder that Vista created was 138 MB.

Now please tell me, how come Vista creates a 138 MB backup folder if I now
only have 110 GB of data in the disk? Where did it get the extra 28 GB from?

If you are going to justify saying I now need to buy a backup application,
don't bother. It was there in XP and it worked. It would have cost MS
absolutely nothing to leave it there. I don't even trust the backup that
Vista did, so I am left with the feeling that I ended up wasting 138 GB of
space for nothing.

 

[kurttrail]

In XP the backup feature was very extensive, highly configurable and
trustworthy. It was the only OS in each I had to do disaster recovery
and I can prove from experience that it works (Windows Server versions
use the same). You could schedule several types of backup (Normal,
Differential, incremental, etc) and could get NT backup to compress the
catalogue, which if you have lots of highly compressible documents
(DOCs, etc) can reduce the size of the catalogue quite considerably.

Yesterday I asked Vista to do a full backup on the new HD. It only gave
me 1 option, which was to choose the destination (the new HD). I did not
find options for scheduling, types of backup and compression. This
morning after the backup has finished the backup folder that Vista
created was 138 MB.

Now please tell me, how come Vista creates a 138 MB backup folder if I
now only have 110 GB of data in the disk? Where did it get the extra 28
GB from?

If you are going to justify saying I now need to buy a backup
application, don't bother. It was there in XP and it worked. It would
have cost MS absolutely nothing to leave it there. I don't even trust
the backup that Vista did, so I am left with the feeling that I ended up
wasting 138 GB of space for nothing.

MS messed up backup, in order to sell OneCare to home and small business
owners.

MS is trying to cash in on the computer insecurity they created with
their OSs.

MS isn't stupid. Greedy? Oh yeah! MS will leave no unethical stone
unturned in its never ending crusade in parting consumers from there
cash, unnecessarily.

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