Re: Ntbackup

"larry" <larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
Rock

thanks for your reply. i sure do appreciate your help , i dont think i
need to back up anything anyway . i was going to back up what i could like
directx , video drivers and so on because i dont know what i will need after
putting new xp in.

"Rock" wrote:

"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.

You're welcome though this latest post seems to be a non sequiter. You asked about viewing ntbackup files and now you say something about not wanting to backup except for drivers and directx. In any event you can't backup drivers from an installed OS and use them in a new installation. Drivers need to be installed clean. Same with directX.

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

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