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Question about WHS/Win7 backup

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archcommus

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I just installed Windows 7 RTM and am looking at the backup feature. For the first time the included backup utility seems to be powerful enough to suit my needs completely. I have it scheduled to back up select personal folders and do a system image every week. My question is about restoring. In the past I've used rudimentary backup methods like robocopy, which just made a mirror image of my files. This backup, however, appears to keep a dated history of files, which is nice, but it seems when a file is removed locally, it's still in the latest timestamp backup. So if I ever wipe my drive clean and want to do a blanket restore, how do I prevent restoring things that I've long since deleted and no longer want? I'm assuming this applies to the backup system in Windows Home Server and other similar methods too.

Thanks.
 
I can't comment on Win7's backup system, but what you describe is not the case for WHS.

WHS keeps old files as part of older backups, but any given backup only has the files that were on the computer for that backup. So when you do a restore, you will only be restoring the files that were there.
 
Thanks. That is helpful. Maybe there is a way to get Win 7 backup to behave similarly that I'm missing. If not, I'm not sure if it's going to be my method of backup.
 
Any other ideas on how Win7 backup handles this? I tried deleting a couple text files and running a backup, and they were indeed there, but like I said I might be missing something.
 
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