Re: Ntbackup

"larry" <larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
Rock

I appreciate you spending the time to help me , when i double click other
files or folders on my desktop they will open and i can read whats inside but
this .bkf file will not open so i can see if it has all the backup stuff in
it. Well i am going to find another way to backup.
thanks again

"Rock" wrote:

"larry" <larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
> Hello
>
> I installed the NTbackup.exe from my Windows Home XP cd-rom , well it
> seems to have worked alright but i cannot open the backup.bkf file. Is
> this
> normal? Can i still restore using it?
> help me if you can

Have you tested if you can restore from it? Any backup solution should be
tested. What do you mean you cannot open the file?

To see the contents of the file, run ntbackup, and click on restore. Then load the backup file to browse it. That's how backups normally work. The files are not readable except through the program, so what you are seeing is normal.

That said I don't use ntbackup for a variety of reasons. Some time ago I went to drive imaging, saving compressed images of the drives to alternating external hard drives connected through USB. Originally I used PowerQuest's Drive Image. They were bought out some time ago by Symantec and the technology incorporated into Ghost, though I have never used the Symantec offering.

DI works fine in XP but will not work in Vista. So when I moved to Vista I changed to Acronis True Image Home version 10. It will do imaging on a drive and partition basis, drive cloning, and file backup. Images can be full, differential or incremental, cutting down on subsequent backup times. Images can be mounted as virtual drives so individual files/folders can be restored. The images must be viewed within Acronis though, same issue you have now, but I don't see why you consider that problematic.

EIDE drives are low cost, as are external drive enclosures. These coupled with ATI provide a very robust and relatively low cost backup solution.

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

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