Windows 10: Windows Backup has placed backup files in a random folder which locked it from ordinary...

Hi:Summary: Windows Backup has placed backup files in a random folder and locked it from ordinary use. This behavior followed the February update of Windows 11 Pro.An update occurred in February for Windows 11 Pro. At the time I didn't notice any changes. I have never setup or used Windows Backup. I received no prompts about it. But a couple of weeks after the update I noticed my external hard drive had acquired a different icon on a music folder called Music.Clicking on the Music folder I was asked what I wanted to do with my backup.I had to use the command prompt to look at the contents of

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Windows 7 backup

Haven't used it but sounds like it based on Backup and Restore Center info found here. Says you can choose what files and folders if you want and also mentions a system image. Quicken has it's own backup option under one of the menus, use that too. I have for my mom and it's a breeze. Just reinstall app and use Restore in Quicken.

 

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:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/sortname/back_up.html

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.

 

Trouble with Windows Backup.

i cleaned (i.e selected) everything, I suspect it was my post SP1 installation auto-backup files causing the problem, cleaned over 1Gb of system files and then windows backup worked without a problem.