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Data archiving

If you are responsible for the safety of your information, you should

1 raise the archiving of your files so you can restore them if they are randomly removed, or if it fails to work hard disksas well as on

1 case if your computer will be lost or stolen. To meet these needs, Windows XP Professional is included the Backup utility (archiving other). (If this utility does not match your needs, use the sewn third-party developers.) In this section, you will find information about the Utility Data Archiving, restrictions in its application, as well as these restrictions bypass.

Note. If a relatively small number of files is stored on your computer, then when reinstalling system files And applications can instead of | archiving to use the usual copy of the files you need to the recorded CD. In the domain environment, the administrator must produce a centralized archiving of files of most domain customers. To simplify the archiving process, the administrator can oblige you to store your files on the server, and not on the local disk of your computer. Chapter 8 said that the administrator could configure Windows XP Professional to store your configuration files on the server, and not on local computer. Therefore, the administrator can also archive configuration files. When all required files Stored and archived centrally, the administrator can replace the system volume with the standard Windows XP Professional configuration and remotely using Remote Installation Services (Remote Installation Services) and Intellimirror if your Windows XP configuration arises problems. In such a situation, you should not worry, because your data is stored in proven network places.

Note.Possessing the authority of the administrator and Backup Operator, you can archive and restore any files yourself - even if you do not have access (personal user files). If you have a Limited account (limited), then you can archive and restore only your own files.

Carriers archiving

Using the Backup utility, you can archive your data on local hard drives, network drives, film carriers, as well as removable media, such as ZIP or JAZ. However, the Backup utility cannot archive directly on the recorded CD. To do this, install special software, for example, Roxio "S DirectCD. However, you can archive your data to a file located on the hard disk, and then write this file to the CD. (Some archiving utilities can archive files directly on CD . Perhaps it will be one of the reasons why you may prefer a different archiving program.)

Archiving your system

To archive the system, follow these steps.

We / Standard / Service / Data Archiving).

2. By default, when you first start, the Backup program opens in Ma mode
Stera; In this case, you will see the Welcome to the Backup or Restore Wizard page.
(Archiving and recovery wizard).

■ An alternative to the wizard is Advanced Mode (advanced mode), about
Toron we will say later. (In this section, it is assumed that you are using
Backup or Restore Wizard (archiving and recovery wizard) for display
Backup utilities in advanced mode Click the Advanced link
Mode (advanced mode).

■ To the Backup utility always opened in the extended mode, clean
ALWAY START IN WIZARD MODE LOCK window (always run in Master mode),

3. On the Backup or Restore page, select the option
Back Up Files and Settings.

4. On the What to Back Up page (what to archive), select the appropriate option (in Table 1 you will find the list of options). If you select the LET ME CHOOSE WHAT TO BACK UP (Provide object selection option for archiving), use the Items to Back Up page to select disks, folders and files to archive.

Table. 1. Elementsforarchiving

Option

Explanation

My Documents and Settings (My Documents and Settings)

EveryOne "S Documents and Settings (Documents and Settings for the configuration of all users of this computer)

All Information on This Computer (all information on this computer)

Let Me Choose What to Back Up (Provide the option of selecting objects for archiving) Arms all folders and files of your user profile: information about your configuration, the contents of the My Documents folder and its subfolders. Arivers user profile for each user account of this computer. Full archiving, including ASR drive. Using ASR, you can then restore your system. To make it earned, the archiving file must be on an external hard disk, as ASR will delete it. Allows you to select the files and folders to archive.

On the Completing The Backup or Restore Wizard page, check the options you selected. If necessary, press the Back button to change the archiving parameters. For standard type archiving (Normal) type using the parameters specified in the Wizard, click Finish. You can also choose other types of archiving by clicking the Advanced button (optional).

Choice additional options Archiving

To access the four pages containing the recovery options on the Completing The Backup or Restore Wizard page, click Advanced (Advanced). The following sections contain information about the options offered by these pages.

Chooseop. Type archiving

On the Type of Backup page (archive type) page of the archiving and recovery wizard, select the archiving type to be executed. Archiving types are characterized by the parameters that will be archived and the status of an archive bit, tag on a file or folder, whether the archiving is required (archive bit is enabled or installed) or not (archive bit is disabled or cleaned). Table 2 provides information explaining that different types Archiving make with archival bit and files and mi marked for archiving.

Types of archiving	Description	Archive bit
Normal (Normal)	Arivers each file or folder
Copy (Copy)	Copies (does not archive) each selected file or folder
Differential (Extensitive)	Arms selected folders and files changed since the last archiving	Not discharged
Incremental (Different)	Arms selected folders and files changed since the last archiving or difference archiving
Daily (Daily)	Arms selected folders and files changed on the day of launch archiving

There are differences between additional and difference archiving. Expose archives increase in the amount daily (therefore they need more disk space), since they include each file modified since the last complete archiving. As a result, you can restore the computer using the latest full archiving and the latest additive archiving. Difference archiving includes only files changed since the last complete or difference archiving - it is not cumulative. Therefore, to restore the computer you will need the last full archiving and every difference archiving created from the moment of this complete archiving.

Checkdata, hardwarecompressionandshadowcopy

On the HOW TO Back Up page (archiving methods), you can select the following options: Verify The Data After Backup (Recommended); Use Hardware Compression (use hardware compression) (possibly only for some film carriers and other custom archiving devices); Disable Volume Shadow Copy (Disable Shadow Copying Tom State). Shadow copying of volume creates a copy of the volume, and then instead of the volume itself produces the archiving of its copies. Advantage this method It is that during archiving you can continue to work with your applications and files. The disadvantage of this method can be called what it works only on NTFS volumes and does not work with volumes in FAT. Shadow copying volume is included by default.

Replacementexistingarchiveoradditiondatatohim

On the Backup Options page of the archiving and recovery options, you can select the following options: APPEND THE Backup to An Existing Backup (add this archive to existing) and Replace The Existing Backup (replace existing archives). These parameters are applicable only if the archiving place already contains an existing archive. If you have selected the replacement of an existing archive, then you will have the opportunity to highlight the Allow Only the Owner and the Administrator Access to the Backup Data and to Any Backups to the Backup to This Medium (Allow access to this archive data and all the archives added to this carrier only the owner and administrator). This option allows you to restrict access to the archives to all except the owner of the archives and administrator.

Creating an archiving start-up schedule

On the WHEN TO Back Up page, you can select the archiving and recovery wizard: Backup Now (now) or Create A Schedule for the Backup to Run Later. To create a schedule, you need to specify an account that must have a password.

Recovery files from the archive

When you need to restore files from the archive, follow these steps.

1. Select START / ALL PROGRAMS / ACCESSORIES / SYSTEM TOOLS / BACKUP (Start / All Program
We / Standard / Service / Data Archiving) To launch the Backup utility. how
And before, the Backup program will open in the default wizard mode, so
You will again see the Welcome to the Backup or Restore Wizard page.
Vacation and recovery).

2. On the Backup or Restore page, select the option
Restore Files and Options (Restore Files and Parameters).

3. On the What to Restore page (what to restore), open the archive file from which you are going to restore files. Specify files and folders for recovery, highlighting the corresponding window flags.

4. On the Completing The Backup or Restore Wizard page, you can click the Finish button to perform a standard recovery (restores files on their initial places, but does not replace existing files. Having the same names as restored Files) or click the Advanced button (optional parameter selection).

Change additional recovery parameters

By clicking the Advanced button (optional) located on the Completing The Buckup or Restore Wizard page, you can open the next three pages containing additional options.

Choosing a recovery place

On the WHERE TO RESTORE page (selection of the recovery site) of the archiving and formation wizard, specify where you should put the recoverable files and folders. Use the ORIGINAL LOCATION option if you need to "stop one or more folders or disks, and you are ready to replace the current files and folders are restored. Use the Alternate Location option to restore files or folders to another folder without replacing current files, then you are a shit to replace the current files manually. To specify a folder in which the files are recovered, use the Altern Location text box (alternative placement). Use the Single Location option to restore files to another location, consisting of one folder without overwriting current files. Placing all files in one folder can be useful if you recover multiple files from different folders and the content of them in one folder is more convenient than accommodation in separate folders. To specify a folder in which the recoverable files should be placed, use the Folder Nan text box (folder name).

Recovery method

On the HOW TO RESTORE page, you can select the method of restarting files if the files with the same names already exist at the specified location of your computer. You can choose the following options: Leave Existing File; (Leave an existing file), Replace Existing Files If the Backup Files (Replace an existing file, if it is older than an archive copy), Replace existing files (Replace an existing file).

Additional recovery parameters

The Advanced Restore Options page (Advanced Recovery Options) allows you to select the following options.

■ The Restore Security Settings option determines whether the Backup utility will re-apply permissions and audit parameters
To the files recovered. This option is only available when recovering the archive made on the NTFS disk. If the option is available, it is selected
default.

■ Option RESTORE JUNCTION POINTS, BUT NOT THE FOLDERS AND FILE DATA THEY REFERENCE
(Restoring connection points, not folders and files that they refer to). When this option is selected, the data archiving utility restores the connection points without restoring the folders and the files to which they indicate) the recovery point is a physical cluster on your hard disk indicating data stored elsewhere. Usually, you create a connection point when the disk is connected to the NTFS folder. You probably do not have to use this option.

■ PRESERVE EXISTING VOLUME MOUNT POINTS (Save existing volume connection points). This option determines whether the data archiving utility allows you to save any existing volume connection points or replace their archive data. This option is highlighted by default.

UsingutilitiesBackup.inexpandedmode

Instead of using the archiving and recovery wizard, you can open the Backup utility in Advanced Mode. The following sections contain information about the options offered in advanced mode.

Using the four Advanced Mode tabs

Advanced mode contains four tabs that provide direct access to the backup utility archiving options.

Restorationsystems

System Restore (System Restore) is a semi-automatic recovery tool designed to restore the system from problems such as configuration problems, system instability, or installing an application that runs not as it should. The system recovery automatically creates snapshots (snapshots) configuration of your system files, which allows you to restore the configuration of your computer before assessment. These pictures are called Restore Points (recovery points) or System Checkpoints (system control points). They are located on your hard disk, and the place for them is automatically reserved by the utility recovery system. By default, the system recovery stores the recovery point to 90 days, after which they are automatically deleted. When the program restoring the system is not enough space, it rubs the most oldest points, freeing it for new recovery points.

RunningRecoverysystems

After the system recovery launch, you must be an administrator. If you try to start recovery without being an administrator, then Windows XP Professional will display a dialog box that reports that you are not enough security privileges to restore the system. To open the system recovery, select Start / All Programs / Accessories / System Tools / System Restore (Start / All Programs / Standard / Service / System Restore. You can also start the system restore, running / / CSYSTEMROOT% \\ System32 \\ Restore \\ rstrui.exe . Since you have to specify the path, the use of the Start menu is usually faster and easier. Figure 23.6 shows the System Restore page (System Restore). Administrators have hard control over the system restoration. Administrator can do the following.

1. Disable the program restoring the system and prohibit it to use it. Disable the program restoring the system and prohibit it to configure it. Disable the system recovery system, but allow you to configure it (if you are an administrator).

whatprotectsRestorationsystems

System Recovery Protects Your System Files, Application Files, Labels and Links Your Start menu. System Restore does not protectyour file-scraped. To protect your data files, use the Utility archiving DAN-NOSHILE other archiving utility. System Restore does not protect archival files created using the data archiving utility. To view file details, folders and file types excluded by system recharge, launch% Systemroot% \\ System32 \\ Restore \\ FileList.xml.

Creaturepointsrecoverysystems automaticallyandmanually

In the configuration specified by default, Windows XP Professional automatically creates the following recovery points:

■ With the first download windows XP Professional after the installation is completed;

■ Every 24 hours of calendar time. If the computer does not work, WindowsXP
Professional will create a recovery point as soon as he earns. You can
Change the interval of automatic creation of recovery points based
on calendar time by editing rpgloballnteral parameter
DWORD in the HKLM \\ SOFTWARE \\ Microsoft \\ WindowsNT \\ CurrentVersion section \\
SystemRestore. The value of this parameter is the interval in seconds. In trouble
There is 86400 seconds or 24 hours.

Council.You can also force Windows XP to create recovery points in the intervals when you run your computer. This feature may be useful for computers working most of the time. To create such session-interval recovery points, change the RPSessionlnterVal parameter values \u200b\u200blocated in the HKLM \\ Software \\ Microsoft \\ WindowsNT \\ Currentversion \\ SystemRestore section. By default, the value is set to zero (recovery points are not created). Set the number of seconds as the interval. For example, you can specify 7200 seconds to create a session-interval recovery point every two hours. You can also create a session-interval recovery point to add or instead of recovery points with an interval based on calendar time.

■ when restoring your system to an earlier or late point
News by means of restoring the system. (You can restore before Bo
more late point if the recovery until the early point does not give the expected re
Collect.)

■ When you use the data archiving utility to restore your si
Steams.

■ When installing or removing applications such as InstallShield and Windows Installer.

■ When installing some devices drivers - especially, device drivers,
not signed by digital signature.

As an administrator, you can create manually recovery points at any time convenient for you. You can assign your individual name for each recovery point for simplicity. The most suitable time to create recovery points is the time before making changes to the configuration, before installing an application that may not use a system that is compatible with the recovery system or before installing the driver you do not completely trust.

To create a recovery point, follow these instructions.

1. Select Start / All Programs / Accessories / System Tools / System Restore (Start / All Pro
Grams / Standard / Service / System Restore) To start the utility
System Restore.

2. Detore My Computer to An Earlier Time (Restoration of more wounds
It is a computer state) and click Next (Next) to open the window
SELECT A Restore Point (selection of the recovery control point) (see Fig. 23.7).

3. Select the recovery point by clicking on the date in the calendar, and then select
Recovery point in the list.

A warning. The calendar displays the available recovery points only for the current shown month. Any days related to the previous or subsequent month are not displayed. To see the recovery points available for another month, display this month using the calendar control buttons.

5. Check the parameters you selected, close any other working when
Follows and click Next (Next) to perform the recovery.

6. After rebooting, make sure that the system works correctly. If it is not
Use the restore system to restore the preceding
Standing Windows XP (that is, cancel the recovery), or restore the system
Mu at an earlier point of recovery.

\Setting up and disable system recovery

You have the ability to change the number of hard disk space allotted by: System Restore. You can also disable the system recovery for any drives where it is not required. You can even disable the system recovery for all disks, however, this is not the most reasonable solution. (Except for the case when you catastrophically lack the place and on the disk and you cannot allow the restoration of the system to use the required 200MB or more.)

Note.The administrator may not allow you to configure the system recovery. If so, the System Restore Settings link will be missing on the System Restore page (System Restore); You will also won't see the System Restore tabs in the System Properties dialog (System Properties) dialog box.

By default, 12 percent of the disk space of each hard disk, the size of which exceeds 4GB and 400MB for each disk, the size of which is less than 4GB. For large disks of this space, more than enough, so you can reduce it. However, the smaller the place you assign the system to restore, the less you have recovery points, so you have to experiment with this value to determine optimal settings For your computer. System recovery is recommended to use only for disks that contain system files and application files; For the remaining disks it is better to turn off. For most configurations, this means that the system recovery will be used only for the system disk. However, if application files are stored not on the system disk (for example, the system disk does not accommodate both both), you should enable the recovery system for a disk containing these applications.

To change the number of space on the disk allocated to restore the system, follow these instructions.

1. Press the Windows Break keys to call the System Properties dialog box, then click on the System Restore tab for display it (see Fig. 23.8). Alternatively, open the System Restore (system restore) and on homepage System Recovery Click the System Restore Settings link to display the Restore System Properties of the System Properties dialog tab.

Note. Management Tools On the Recovery tab of the system dialog box, the properties of the system differ depending on the number of volumes. The computer shown in Figure 23.8 has two volumes, and therefore Windows XP displays a list of Available Drives (available discs) and the Settings button. If your computer has only one volume, on the Restore system tab, instead of the list, the available discs and the parameters buttons, you will see the Disk Space Usage slider. Using this slider, you can change the size of the disk space reserved to restore.

2. To completely disable the system recovery, select the Turn Off option.
System Restore On All Drives (Disable system restore on all discs) or the TURN OFF System Restore option (disable system recovery). (The latter is used for computers that have only alone.) As mentioned earlier, full shutdown Not recommended with the exception of rare cases.

3. To configure the recovery of the disk system, highlight this disk in the list.
Available Drives and press the SETTINGS (Parameters) button. After that, Windows XP will display the SETTINGS dialog box for this disk.

■ Controls in the parameters dialog box differ depending on whether this disc system.

■ On the right screen of Figure 23.8, an example of the parameters dialog box is shown.
For a system disk. Parameters dialog box for non-system disk
It also contains the option TURN OFF SYSTEM RESTORE ON This Drive (disable the system recovery on this disk).

4. Use the DISK Space to Use slider to indicate
The size of the disk space reserved to restore the system
we. Or, if necessary, select the TURN OFF SYSTEM RESTORE ON This option
Drive (Disable the restore system on this disk). If your computer
It has only one disk, use the appropriate controls on
The System Restore tab (System Restore) of the SYSTEM dialog box
Properties (System Properties).

5. If you have multiple disks on your computer, set the parameters for them
Formation of the system.

Removing recovery points

The system recovery automatically deletes the recovery points after 90 days. If the system recovery detects a disadvantage of a disk space to this point, the oldest recovery points will be removed in order to free the place for new ones. You cannot delete recovery points directly through Windows ExplorerHowever, you can make it one of the following methods.

■ To remove all the recovery points except last, run
Disk Cleanup and select the System Restore option (Restore
Systems) (For more information about cleaning the disk, see ch. 39).

■ To remove all recovery points, turn off the system recovery,
It is not recommended because after disabling the recovery system)
Difficulties may arise when restoring the computer after
failure

■ To reduce the time interval during which the restoration of SIS
Themes store recovery points, reduce the RPLifeInterval parameter value
In the HKLM \\ Software \\ Microsoft \\ WindowsNT \\ CurrentVersion registry section \\
SystemRestore. By default, this value is 7776000 seconds or 90 days.

Automatic system restoration

Automated System Recovery (Automatic System Recovery, ASR) is a tool for automatic recovery Your system in case of failure. ASR is the last hope to restore the system of the system, if it was not possible to go using the rest of the recovery methods. ASR is the last step before reinstalling Windows XP Professional manually. You can also use ASR places less serious problems, but this is not recommended and can lead to unforeseen consequences.

Note. The next chapter contains a review of funds. windows restoration XP Professional. In it, you will find a description of other Windows CP Professional Recovery tools, and also learn when each of them should be used.

ASR is part of Windows XP Professional - Microsoft did not turn on this tool in windows version Xp Home Edition. It is assumed that this is done so that users do not try to use this tool when there is no need, and also because the company wanted to distinguish Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Home Edition.

Note. In the domain environment, your data files and configuration files can be stored on the network, since in this case the administrator can easily perform their archiving. In this situation, you will not have to use ASR. If the Windows CP configuration is damaged, the administrator will be able to restore the system volume using a standard configuration using Remote Installation Services (Remote Installation Services, RIS) and Intellimirror.

How does it workASR.

ASR archives the contents of your system volume in big file. archive and preserves not a large number of Important information about the configuration on a floppy disk. After the emergence of a problem that is not solved by the usual recovery tools, you should boot from your windows disk XP Professional CD in Special ASR mode. Then you provide your floppy disk and specify Windows XP Professional Location ASR archive. The archive file can be stored on removable media or hard disk. Since this archive contains all system volume files, it will take a lot of place - about 1 to several tens of gigabytes. Therefore, the archive carrier must be the corresponding volume to accommodate the archive file. A recordable disk d is quite suitable, film carrier or outdoor hard disk. If you are going to store your ASR file file on the hard disk, please contact the following points. The archive file must be stored on a volume different from the system. If the archive file is not saved by a system volume, it will be lost when I try to restore your system volume in its previous condition. ASR formats the partition, and then create a connection point and directory structure using information from the ASR diskette.

■ Despite the fact that you can store the ASR archive file on another volume of the same inner disk that contains your system volume, storing this file with another hard disk is still preferable. There are two reasons for it. First, any hardware problem affecting the system volume (for example, the BAD sector or violated partition table) can affect other volumes of that "disk. This may prevent recovery from the ASR archive. Secondly, safer storing the archive file outside the computer. External hDD or network Disk Provide the required flexibility and a large amount of disk space sufficient to fully archive the system volume of your system.

A warning.ASR is not a panacea for system failures and data loss of ASR does not fully arch your entire system. ASR will not be able to help you with a loss, distortion or accidental deletion of data, except for the case when they are stored on the system volume. Use ASR to protect your system files, but do not forget to regularly archive your data files

Creating a set of emergency recoverysystems with ...

Data can be copied, and you can archive. This is the same? Or are these different concepts? From the point of view of the Russian language, these concepts are close.

Copy, it means to create copies, duplicate data.

Archive - Create an archive, that is, again duplicate the data. But we are not linguists!

Archive is to duplicate the data in such a way that later from this double can be restored by the data as they were until the archiving.

Copy is not easy to duplicate data. Copy is to create a copy so that this copy can be used independently, regardless of the main copied data.

Explain. Copied data, for example, on a USB flash drive. This flash drive can be inserted into another PC, edit any data on this flash drive, change any files.

Copies of data files can live a separate self-life from the source data based on which they were created. And this is not an archive! Is there any other rules in the paper archive? Yes, this is akin to the crime! Archive, he is an archive. What passed to him, then received and received.

Now compare! Performed data archiving, for example, to an external hard drive. The resulting archive files can be used singly, namely, restore the data in the PC using the archive copy for this. Everything. Edit archive copies can not! Any attempts to edit archival data will lead to the fact that their source data is not allowed to restore. Never!

We consider the creation of data archives. We are not talking about copying, we are talking only about archiving. The archives cannot be changed. From the archives you can only restore lost data. The only way!

Are you still in doubt? Top in vain!

Where do data write archives?

The data archives are written on media to which include:

1) PC internal hard drives,

2) external hard drives,

3) flash drives,

4) CD- / DVDs,

5) Network discs

6) magnetic ribbons (this is an exotic, used more often when copying servers, not user PCs)

The archives can be done on any to which you can record information, and from which you can subsequently read and restore this data on the source places on the PC.

Now consider these devices separately.

1) Data Archiving on PC Internal Hard Drives It makes sense only if the archives are written to another hard disk than the one on which the archived information is stored.

Consider this option in more detail. Suppose the computer has two physical, designated in Windows as C: and D:. Then, following the above logic, the contents of the first hard disk C: can be archived on second tough D: D: And, on the contrary, the contents of the second hard disk D: you can archive to the first hard drive C:.

Another option is possible. If the only physical disk on the computer is broken into two logical disks, then they will be visible in Windows, too, like C: and D:

But if these two logical disks are located on a single physical hard disk, then such archiving does not make sense.

- Why?

- Because when you fail, the data of such a hard disk will disappear and from a logical disk C:, and from a logical disk D:. So, along with the data will die and the archive of these data.

Such an archival when the data from the first logical disk (C :) is transferred to the second logical disk (D :) Within one physical hard disk, we do not need! "Scripper is not needed!" (From the movie "Kin-Dza-Dza").

2) data archiving on an external hard drive It will be useful and convenient if the size of this external hard disk is no less than the size of the data of the archived disk PC.

For example, if the user stores in its PC more than 250GB of data, then the external hard disk with a size of 250GB is not suitable for creating an archive on it. It should be, for example, 320GB or more (500GB, 640GB, 1TB, etc.).

3) data archiving on flash drives It makes sense if the size of the flash drive is no less than the size of the data of the archived disk of the PC. But they usually do not exceed 32-64GB, so they are not too suitable for use as data archiving devices. This does not cancel their utility, for example, to copy data.

Of course, there are already larger flash drives (64-256GB), but their cost may be such that it is easier to purchase an external hard drive.

4) CD-/DVD- Discussions are also suitable for creating data archives on them. But these carriers have a number of shortcomings:

• First, they are not very voluminous, the maximum volume of the DVD is about 4,6GB. Therefore, the largest archives are simply not placed on one CD- / DVD. So, you need to create so-called multi-volume archivesWhat makes it difficult and complicates archiving. Makes it very long and requires the mandatory participation of the PC user to serial replacement of CD / DVDs during the creation of the archive or in the process of recovering data from the archive.

• Secondly, the record of data on these carriers is relatively slow. So, the user must be very patient in order to make a few hours in a row to create an archive, constantly rearing CD- / DVDs as they are slow filling.

In this series of articles, we will consider the options for archiving on flash drives, on internal and external hard drives, on CD- / DVDs. Other more exotic options we will not consider.

Greetings to you Visitors blog site!

I would like to make a certain clarity in such a thing, which is the difference between the created image image from archiving windows tools From application for these purposes third-party programs.

Is it possible to install the resulting archive or the image to be installed on another computer?

For beginners it is quite difficult to understand these images, archives, ISO, backups and other not very understandable Windows tools, which often ask me questions.

I remember when I just started to know the computer, something specifically confused in this topic. Each response found me only more confusing, my brain just "boiled" from all the inconsistent information received.

Then after some time, in all this, he sacron himself was already sorted by mastered the whole PC as a whole and created even his blog to help "teapotes" on which you are now.

About 1.5 years ago, I wrote two articles: and so I advise you to read them.

1. The difference in archiving from the image image

The archiving tool does not have the ability to restore Windows OS and is intended solely to recreate user data.

But the image of the system is able to create a backup of the Windows operating system with all its settings, as well as program and user files for subsequent recovery.

2. ISO or backup

Similar words speaking ISO - this is an image of a system with all settings and drivers, backup is a copy of the full OS plus user files.

But if you use the capabilities of the standard Windows utility, then you will know (who is not up to date) they are calculated only for recovery on the same computer to another hardware install a copy.

Hence the conclusion, no is not an ISO, but simply a copy or other words backup (as to like it) and at greater built-in funds "Windows" are simply unable!

3. The advantage of third-party software

Is it? Let's try to figure it out.

The popular Acronis backup program has a non-small functionality compared to the recovery system.

It has the opportunity to choose to recreate the sections you need to combine the above-described archiving and recovery, and also has many other useful things that needed.

Thanks to Acronis or other similar utilities, it is quite possible to install backup on another PC provided identical configuration Two computers.

As can be seen, the superiority is obvious, but I have enough of the standard tools and third-party software in a particular case here is nothing.

By the way, watch articles

In this article, I will tell you how to backup data: working files, multimedia and operating system (make it image). Backup (data archiving) is extremely necessary, as as a result of a hard disk breakdown, or a virus, you can lose important documents, photo archives, works created in various programs. Maybe you just want to reinstall the pure copy of the OS with all the programs. When this happens, this situation will be easy to fix.

The most common case of users is the failure of the operating system. In order to restore the former status of the computer (programs, settings, etc.), you must spend from several hours to several days to install and configure Windows OS, but most time takes the installation of additional software. Often, inexperienced users store their data on the system disk, without thinking to transfer information to other sections tough Disc, not to mention the external HDD.

Backup methods (archiving) and restoration

Windows 7: Built-in archiving and recovery tool

It is quite easy to use and even allows you to perform this procedure automatically on schedule. Location in the backup tool system: "Start | All Programs | Service | Archiving and recovery ». Menu in the left column - "Create a system recovery disk" and "Creating an image of the system".

Creating an image of a system. You must specify the location of the future archive: Select another disk section, external HDD or optical disk (DVD, Blue Ray). Also present the ability to save the backup to the network drive. Use optical media is impractical, so to store a backup copy, use a logical disk with a sufficient location for storing or external HDD. Selected place, press the "Archive" button. Archive will be the whole system section. This procedure can be done on schedule, with Windows updates the previously recorded image of the system, without creating it again, which saves time.

If you select the "Archiving" tool, you can configure the regular copy of important user data. To do this, select "Configure Backup", specify which disk saving, click "Next", in the next window, select "Give me a choice" and then mark the objects for archiving. To restore the backup content, select one of the three Action Suggested: "Restore my files from this backup", "Restore files for all users on this computer" or "Management on a disk held by this backup".

To restore the system, if it is not loaded or displays an error that you are not able to fix, you may need an emergency recovery disk. To create it, select on the menu on the left "Create a system recovery disk" and specify on which carrier it is organized. Unfortunately, only laser disks are supported, which is not suitable for laptop owners without an optical drive.

This tool built into Windows is not deprived of drawbacks, such as for a long time Create archive and lack of compression function. However, there are other, more functional products.

Backup and recovery using Acronis True Image Home 2013

Windows XP users, where there is no built-in reservation tool, as well as users with higher requirements for the functionality of the backup program I will recommend Acronis True Image Home 2013.

Acronis True Image Home uses 3 methods for creating a backup.

Full image - archiving absolutely all data, including MBR (if the section is bootable).

Differential - only those data that changed from the time of creation of the archive first (full) method is included in the backup.

The incremental method - allows you to supplement the backup files changed after the last backup procedure.

Backup system partition Make just: In the main program window, select the first option - "Backup disks and partitions", then specify a section or disk, set the place to save the archive and, if necessary, change the archiving settings (for example, set the degree of archive compression on the tab "Performance" or protect the password archive). At the end of the process, a file with the extension will be created in the repository you specified. * .tib. Acronis True Image Home 2013 allows you to connect a backup as a logic disk and work with the desired data. In this way, you can extract the desired file from a predetermined archive, which you accidentally completely removed from the hard disk.

In addition to reserving partitions and disks, you can archive (including scheduled) individual directories and files, as well as Windows address book, contact list and correspondence Microsoft Outlook.. To restore in the most difficult cases, you can use the boot version of the program (boot disk or boot disk), Moreover, it is possible to create such a decision both on the optical and USB carrier.

It happens that when experiments with setting several operating systems It turned out to be spoiled main boot record (Master Boot Record), you can try to "revive" it, noting the "MBR" checkmark when recovering from the image. Also, Acronis True Image Home 2011 can convert backups From its "native" format in VHD format (these are backups created by Windows 7 system tools, and simultaneously images virtual disksthat is, they can be connected to almost any virtual machines) and back.

In most cases, recovery is reduced to the selection of the desired archive and partition in which the contents of the backup will be deployed. It is worth noting the extraordinary time of installation and a low speed of Acronis True Image Home in Windows XP.

Paragon Backup & Recovery Professional: Backup with additional features

About the Paragon Backup & Recovery Professional program that implements backup and restore files I told in, however, with the aim of windows transfer On another PC. Unlike the Acronis product, in addition to archiving operations, it allows you to implement some of the steps with sections - for example, changing the tag, formatting, hiding and deleting. However, for this you need to switch to "Mode for experienced users».

Before backing up, it is recommended to create an emergency disk to restore data from the image. To do this, go to the "Utilities" section and select "Creating an emergency disk". You can also select either an optical or external hard disk, or a USB flash drive here.

To create a backup copy of data, go to "Protection and Data Recovery | Intellectual archiving ", without forgetting before you prepare a reliable storage. You can choose what to reserve: "Disks or Sections", e-mail (emails, accounts And Outlook Address Books, Outlook Express and Windows Mail), "Media Files" and "Documents" (texts, photos, videos and music stored in the My Documents catalog) or "other files or folders".

Next you can produce extra options Copy - Choosing the degree of image compression, password protection and copying mode (all sectors of the disk "as is" are processed, including unused). You can assign an FTP server as a repository of the archive if you have. If you prefer the optical media, the program will warn it that it will be impossible to maintain the main boot record disk.

For advanced users in Backup & Recovery, there is a professional tool for working with Virtual PC virtual machines, VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion. Thanks to him, you can convert an image of a real hard disk, such as a system partition, and then open it with all data and programs in virtual Machine Even on another computer.

Surely every Windows user or mobile gadget came across the concept of "archiving". This is what is, now we will try to clarify. We will especially affect the issue of the role of this process in data recovery.

Archiving: What is it?

First, starting to study this issue, it should be immediately said that many users often confuse archiving with archiving. In fact, the process is something similar to archiving, but has a more complex algorithm regarding the reservation of space to save data on the disk space.

Actually, if you figure it out, archiving is to create a copy of any object / objects, a system image, settings status, or all that is on hard disk or in logical sections.

Archiving and archiving: similarity and difference

For those who do not see the difference between these two processes, it is worth making some comparison.

Lots of very much, but also enough of the differences. For example, the archive in which some data is placed is created only in order to reduce the size. Some modern archivers make it possible to compress data in two or more times.

But the archiving system works several in a different principle, although it also implies data compression (but not at the physical level). Thus, program-archivers like WinRar creates an archive, from which it will then be possible to extract data, and the archival is more like that it is customary to name the backup. Do you feel the difference? These are not stable data (although in some sense and compressed), but images containing information about all installed applications, user files and settings. After all, many people have come across the problem of data recovery and settings, for example, on Android systems. But about it - a little later.

Archiving: General principles

Now let's see what archiving represents. This is, in fact, the system of creating a "backup" -copy of the contents of a computer or mobile device, reservation space to save such and the ability to restore when damaged the system or critical failures. In this case, we are dealing with a virtual copy rather than physical.

Windows systems

IN windows systems In a sense, it reminds the work of programs that allow you to restore the data after removal. The point is that the files are not destroyed on the hard drive, even after removal from the "Basket".

They are assigned a specific index, most often consisting of the "$" symbol that replaces the initial log of the name. So here - the archiving of any type of documents is made not only with the compression of the volume, but also from opening copies created by using such a process, it is impossible.

Mobile systems

It is often enough and in the settings of mobile devices you can find partitions for archiving and recovery. In fact, in them, archiving is the same as in computer systems. But here, when creating a copy, several other methods are used.

First, compared to Windows-systems that offer to save the image exclusively on the hard disk, mobile systems operate in a more advanced version. For example, the same "Operations" like iOS or Android offer the user a choice of information saving. So, you can choose either the device itself, or a removable map (in the case of Android, since Apple gadgets removable media are not supported), or even a remote server in the form of a "cloud" storage (Google Drive, for example).

Archiving and recovering data: How does it work?

As for the work of the archiving system, this is a separate question. The fact is that the virtual copy of a file being created is reduced to not copy it in full, but to decrease ten times.

In general, if someone noticed, the image of the system itself or the hard drive occupies almost the same disk space as original files. For example, when setting up an archiving with a disk that has a 200 GB memory, crashed by user files and heavy programs (for example, Sound banks of virtual synthesizers of type kontakt, which are not compressed at all), the system will propose to reserve about 140-150 GB (at best) . It is clear that to use even DVD discs in this case is absolutely inappropriate (still 31 pieces).

When creating only the image image, without copying user files, you will need to be needed three times. It will take 60-70 GB (minimum 40-45 GB for Windows 7, 8 or 10 versions). In any case, the creation of a copy in terms of using the hard disk memory will have to be called, to upset. Note, the size of the copy is absolutely independent of the volume of the hard drive. You want this or not, the system itself reserves the desired space.

As for mobile gadgets, such a function is also provided. In this sense, archiving is the same as in stationary systems, but here's just places to save data, compared to the same "Windows", it is necessary much less. At the same time, save the image of the system and all files that are, let's say, on a removable memory card, you can just just. On the same map you can save an image of a system that will not significantly affect the disk space of the removable media.

Copies of system images and disks: How to create and restore?

What in Windows that in mobile systems The data recovery function is initially laid. Truth, windows archiving 10 makes thinking. The system reserves as much space that it is impossible to imagine.

On the other hand, let users do not yell. The appearance of the same blue screen of death with a mistake speaks of many ways.

Maybe it is correct. After all, when problems with the restoration of the system's performance and all that was located on the hard drive or in logical sections, will not be laughing. And the "dozen" does, apparently, two copies: one is responsible for the parameters "Operations", the second - for user programs and files. So, before deleting catalogs with the data on recovery, think a hundred times.

What is the result?

In general, it seems, it is already clear that archiving is backup saving data. Do not confuse the concepts of archiving and archiving, although somewhere and something they are very similar. However, it is clear to assimilate the fact that backups in any system are almost key, when in the future (after unforeseen failures) it may be necessary to restore the system, and even more than user files that could be erased.

This review did not consider some specialized information recovery utilities. However, it seems, as part of the topic, it is not necessary. Well, programs allowing processes such as archiving and recovery, you can find any way. Take, for example, the Acronis Disc Image utility, and everything will become clear. It's easy to work, and in one or two clicks. And this is not the only program that allows you to perform the actions of this kind.