Question about System Image Backups in Win7

[ckett]

Hello,

When I create a system image backup using Windows 7 to an external backup USB hardrive, can I make several image backups on the same partition?

Example, I create a complete system image backup on Jan 2010 to my external USB hardrive. Then in Feb 2010 I decide to do another complete system image backup to the same external USB drive on the same partition.

Can I do this? Then if I needed to do a complete system restore I can pick which image to restore from the external USB drive based on the the date the image was created.

Or, do i need to have a system image backup on individual partitions on the external drive?

Thanks!

 

[sivart]

When I make a new image, it always prompts me that it will overwrite the original image. I would say no, you can't out of the box...but there may be a work around that I don't know of.

 

[ckett]

Thanks,

I havent found a good answer to this either without just doing a few backups on a test drive.

I am looking at just having a number of partitions large enough to back up my system drive to. So one image backup per partition on the backup drive.

 

[t0mn8r]

If you move the backup out of the WindowsImageBackup folder you can have as many as you like. Rename the moved folder into a folder with a date or version number (e.g. noapps20100211) and (wallah) you can have plenty of backups.

HTH