Windows 10: Fixed my problem with file backup

For years I've been using the file backup option found under "Settings". Recently, however, when I clicked on "backup now" I would get a message saying "backing up your data". After 10-15 seconds, it would indicate that the backup was complete, but the date shown was two months old. I couldn't get it to actually update to the external hard drive.


The problem appears to be related to the change Microsoft made to Windows 10, allowing you to remove external drives without going through the "safely remove hardware" process. I did the following:


- open File Explorer and right click on the external hard drive

- click on Properties

- click on the Hardware tab, then select the hard drive you are backing up to

- then click on Properties, toward the bottom

- select the Policies tab

- click on Better Performance

- go to Settings, select Update and Security, then select Backup

- turn off Automatically Update My Files, then select More Options

- go back to the previous page and turn on Automatically Update My Files

- select More Options, then select Back Up Your Data


This worked for me (my files have been updating for a while now).


Please let us know if this works for you...

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[HELP]Image recovery issues

Guys i am trying to fix my cousins Asus Eee netbook. It has a backup image file that is partitioned on the hard drive but when I go to use it the app will run through a few steps and stop. It is running Vista . Any suggestions?

 

Windows Backup Problems

Having a problem backing up Windows 7, need help. Basically, I am having the problem in which the backup will not create at all and fails at the shadow copy. This happens in Windows Backup using both the disk image backup and the personal file backup. It goes to maybe 5%-8% of Shadow Copy depending on the backup type and fails. The error that comes in event viewer is 0x81000019. Yes the disk is brand new and double the size of C:.

I tried the fix of making a new 490mb system reserve partition and that did not help (http://social.technet.microsoft.com...l/thread/fce6950d-c06d-4dd0-a850-67022db4fe04) I formatted the disk several times and that didn't help. I tried a third party program, Comodo backup, and that too failed to operate I would say based on the shadow copy service. I tried this fix as well (http://social.technet.microsoft.com...aac-a0af-4740-a331-2b14d604a846?prof=required) and I failed at the regsvr32 es.dll, regsvr32 msxml3.dll, regsvr32 msxml4.dll commands, and WMI Writer when using the vssadmin list writers command was not responding. I've also tried stopping and restarting the service.

Besides doing a manual backup using Acronis, which is not preferred at this point, I don't know how to fix this.

 

Using network hard drive for backup

It depends what sort of backup you want to do. If you're happy just backing up regular files, then there are a bazillion (really, that many!) different bits of freeware to do that. There is a good list here:

Download Back Up Tools for Windows - MajorGeeks

and pretty much all of them can do network backups. Some even have fancy options like encryption. Really, the most useful thing is just being able to schedule them and know they ran OK.

You may also want to make a system image backup too, and you'll find that software in the very same list.

I don't have Windows 8 as yet, so I'm afraid I can't suggest any for that platform. Personally, I use Clonezilla for image backups.