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Windows Forum / Windows Vista / General Topics / May 2008Can I customize backup with Home Premium edition?
Hi, all. I am using Windows Vista Home Premium and am encountering a problem using Microsoft's own Automatic Backup. I have been using running backups weekly now for many months with no problems. Except for the initial full backup, this weekly backup has only taken approx. 20-30% of a DVD. However, since I have fully installed "The Orange Box," my weekly backup now takes 2 full DVD's. Even though, backup does NOT backup any temp files & does NOT back up programs, I am forced to do such a big backup because this gaming software does constant updates whenever I go online. I don't want or need to backup these game settings and updates, but I can't see any way to tell my backup software to ignore these files. The only solution I have for now is to disable automatic backups. Any suggestions? Thanks. Iggy. Iggy Blue;715488 Wrote: > Hi, all. I am using Windows Vista Home Premium and am encountering a > problem [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > Any suggestions? > Thanks. Iggy. Hello Iggy, A quick fix. Buy an external drive for file backup. It must be at least 200-250 GB, at least.  Signaturet-4-2 Approximately how many files do you change or create per week? It might be easier to simply copy them to a DVD. > Hi, all. I am using Windows Vista Home Premium and am encountering a > problem [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > Any suggestions? > Thanks. Iggy. Thanks, guys. I hardly change any files during normal usage; however, I suspect a large number of files are change by "Steam" updates online. (The Orange Box includes four games and other files that are constantly being updated). These little updates have caused Automatic Update to require 2 DVD's the last two times I have updated. I realize I can update to an external hard drive, to save DVD's, but, what I would really like to do is find a way to better control which files get updated. I guess I need to find different back up software than what comes with Home Premium? Any suggestions? Would I be able to select which files to backup with Ultimate edition? Thanks. Iggy. Iggy Blue;716287 Wrote: > Thanks, guys. I hardly change any files during normal usage; however, I > suspect a large number of files are change by "Steam" updates online. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Thanks. Iggy. Hello Iggy, Please open the link of screenshot below. Is that what you are asking about ? 'ImageGrotto: Free Image and Screenshot Hosting' (http://imagegrotto.com/view-files_backup11800.JPG) Signaturet-4-2 Thanks, t-4-2. As your screenshot shows, I cannot specify which files to ignore. I have all of the items checked except for recorded TV. I think my best bet is to get some dedicated software that allows more control. I'm wondering if it's worth upgrading to Ultimate edition. Thanks again. Iggy Blue;716774 Wrote: > Thanks, t-4-2. As your screenshot shows, I cannot specify which files to > ignore. I have all of the items checked except for recorded TV. I think [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > wondering if it's worth upgrading to Ultimate edition. > Thanks again. Hello Iggy, I don't even know what is "Additional files" (I didn't even know it existed). My crazy notion is why not move your "Orange Box" to "Additional files", or "compressed files", and uncheck the box ? Will it work ? Signaturet-4-2 Maybe that would work. But I don't want to mess with the default location of these files. I plan on storing a lot of photos and home movies on this computer; so, I probably should learn more about full backups and dedicated software. Thanks, t-4-2. Iggy :) >Maybe that would work. But I don't want to mess with the default location of >these files. I plan on storing a lot of photos and home movies on this >computer; so, I probably should learn more about full backups and dedicated >software. Thanks, t-4-2. Iggy :) How many is a lot? I have in excess of a million photos and thousands of movies. I would never trust Microsoft crap for backup. Ditto for disk imaging. The technology is too prone to fail. Too many things can go wrong and sooner or later do. Burning to DVD's also a no-no. Can't trust it, unless you make multiple copies to reduce the chance of critical error sometime down the road which is still all too common with DVD's. I know, I've burned thousands of those also. The failure rate during and AFTER burning is much higher than most people realize. Be smart, get some simple yet powerful free standing backup utility like Bounce Back that makes actual copies of files and monitors what as yet isn't backed up. You'll sleep better knowing you have at least two good copies of everything you consider valuable. Thanks, Adam. Sounds like good advice. I am rather new to the whole digital storage game. My usual backup method was a print; but, as I use my film camera less, I am more concerned about losing stuff that can't be replaced. I'm curious. What is your preferred method of backup? Do you use an external hard drive? Are they not also prone to failure over time? Is there some dual-redundancy method that novices could use? Thanks. Iggy. |
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