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Yea this blog is wrong because they just removed the backup GUI. You can do a backup and image using powershell commands just like past Windows versions.
by ladzoppelin 13y ago
Yea this blog is wrong because they just removed the backup GUI. You can do a backup and image using powershell commands just like past Windows versions.
- edandersen 13y agoWell spotted - http://www.howtogeek.com/167984/how-to-create-and-restore-system-image-backups-on-windows-8.1/ http://www.howtogeek.com/167984/how-to-create-and-restore-sy.... Doesn't cover non-image backups of individual files and folders though.
- harrytuttle 13y agoCopy-Item
- edandersen 13y agoThat doesn't handle versioning.
- harrytuttle 13y agoShadow copies, archive bit?
- hug 13y agoThat's still user-hostile. Don't get me wrong, as a Windows sysadmin I love Powershell and use it daily to accomplish various tasks. I have no problem with rolling my own scheduled powershell script to perform a backup, but if if I have to write a script to back up my data I'm not actually using a 'built in system utility' so much as I'm .. y'know, writing a script to back up my files.
- harrytuttle 13y agoThat's fine. As per windows since 2.0, you can copy files to another disk then using the GUI.
- cico71 13y agoThe GUI for system image is back in the final RTM version http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/windows-81-tip-use-system-image-backup http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/windows-81-tip-use-system-... (also confirmed by multiple friends already on RTM)
- Freaky 13y agoCan also confirm. It's just like in 8.0 - lower left corner of the backup dialog.
- edandersen 13y agoThis doesn't automatically do it on a schedule.
- cico71 13y agoCan't really comment as I'm still on 8.0. For me it's enough that it's still there and can be scheduled as a PowerShell command (for files history I use Crashplan anyway) but I agree that if this is the case, it's pretty much hostile for consumer users.