Comments on: How to Schedule a Complete PC Backup

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:06:52 +0000

This backup kept failing on me until I tried it from a command prompt and saw the error message. A complete PC backup will only work on a drive formatted as NTFS. A quick format of the drive solved the problem.

Also note that an incremental backup will work with either NTFS or FAT32.

And thank you for the great article.

By: matus

matus — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:16:10 +0000

Can I include more disks to backup? How?

Thanks :)

By: Gaz

Gaz — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:04:04 +0000

Thanks for this, it is just what I was looking for and works a treat using Vista Ultimate X64. Many thanks

By: JS

JS — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:42:07 +0000

Haven’t tested it yet. Will do that after my manual backup is finished :)

Thanks for the easy step-by-step tutorial

By: Sri

Sri — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:43:52 +0000

I believe complete PC backup only works on Vista business and Ultimate, but this is a great article and should really be the sort of thing that is trivial to set up in vista, and not require users go hunting online…

By: Steven W. Arnold

Steven W. Arnold — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 20:53:29 +0000

Dear Tony,
I guess I am a computer novice, but I have tried several different things with scheduling a complete system backup without being able to make it run. I upgraded to Windows Vista Ultimate this morning and I was abloe to follow your directions to the “T”. The only persons using this computer is my wife and I, so we have administrative privilege, we had to click on continue when we opened the task scheduler in the 1st place. Can you help?

By: Frank Palmisano

Frank Palmisano — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:27:41 +0000

Tony, I have Vista Premium, preinstalled on a Gateway PC. I checked the c:\windows\system32 folder and the file wbadmin is not there (I set Folders to show hidden and system files too). On my second question, I want to install to a specific directory rather than have the backup wipe out what is on that external drive now. Can that be done, assuming there is a way to run this. Thanks!

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Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:14:45 +0000

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By: Lee Hughe

Lee Hughe — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:18:11 +0000

Thank very much for this tutorial.