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Windows Vista Backup and Restore

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by jcherner

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For backup, I rotate between 2 external drives. One I keep next to my computer. The other I keep off-site. This way, if my computer and current backup drive are lost (fire, theft, etc.), I still have a backup.

As we all know, Windows backup adds incremental data to an original backup (as opposed to re-creating an entire backup. QUESTION: When I change backup drives, will Windows Backup incrementally back up from my last backup on that drive, or incrementally backup from whatever was my latest backup?

I'm particularly interested for backing up Windows Mail.

MY EMAIL IS JCHERNER (at) USA.NET
Please use this email instead of clicking on "send message." For some reason "send message" responds that I don't accept email.

Thanks.

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by older mycroft

#1 I'm not convinced that you can fool crawl bots, so even a disguised email address is still open to abuse. Dump it from your post at your earliest opportunity.

Anyway, you won't get much email responses from TR peers this way, because nobody really knows you. Also, the Peermail system allows you to maintain a degree of anonymity if you decide not to reply.

#2 The reason that "send message" is returning a non-acceptance is because you didn't check the box on your profile page for accepting personal emails.

From the page you are looking at, go to the top of the page and click on the white letters "My Workspace". When you are on the Workspace page, click on "Edit Profile" and at the bottom of that page you will find TWO options with bullet points:

[u]Allow other TechRepublic members to contact me[/u] is the setting you want. :)

by older mycroft

The fact that the bottom of your Post doesn't have a "Send Message" category shown, means that your peermail capability is NOT turned on.

I've just tried it and it doesn't work.

I therefore suggest that you go to the bottom of the TR screen and click on 'Site Help & Feedback'.

Reporting your difficulty to TR is the only means of resolving this problem.

Sorry but I do not reply to personal emails from other peers who have been on TR for less than one day. That is what peermail is for - I can retain my anonymity if I choose. :)

by jcherner

I have checked...
Allow other TechRepublic members to contact me...
but I still can't receive email.

by older mycroft

And it stopped working, then started working again.

I don't know what else to suggest to you other than what I originally suggested: use the Site Help & Feedback option at the bottom of the screen.

There is nothing wrong with the function as far as I can ascertain.

by rob miners

To view a list of files you've backed up.

Click Start, Control Panel and open Backup and Restore Center.

Click Restore files.

You can browse or search the contents of the backup.

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