Vista Backup

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: Navid

Originally posted by: Smilin

Originally posted by: Navid
How does Vista file backup handle open files?

Exceptionally well. In fact most backup utilities that handle open files gracefully are really leveraging the same VSS that Vista Backup uses. Obviously changes saved to an open file after the backup has completed that file will need to be snagged the next time around. By no means does it skip open files though. Same thing in XP, 2003, 2003r2, longhorn.

Can you suggest a workaround for backing up .exe files using Vista file backup?
I sent them to a compressed folder and they were still not backed up.

Yes, use scheduled tasks to schedule wbadmin. This does the fullbackup which can't be scheduled from the simple Vista backup UI. Although it seems a bit of overkill to full backup when you're really after a incremental/differential it is in some ways more efficient than the file backup. It will grab a delta of the system as a whole... in other words if a file has changed it will backup the changes rather than the whole file all over again. If you haven't tried the full backup at all yet I think you'll be surprised at how fast it runs.

Just run wbadmin from a command prompt to get a list of options.