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Backup Systempartition, but not all Files needed

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Hi,
i want to backup my computer in order to have a point for restore. But my harddisc has many files, that i did not need in the systembackup.

I think, if i had a harddisc crash i need a systembackup for restore to get my system work back fine. If i only backup files, i did not get the information in the backup for the boot-sequenze ?!?

So how can i make a backup of my systempartition, only with the needed files to get a running windows back?

Hope you could understand my problem

thx
aleyda

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If you do a file type backup, you won't be able to restore your system from a crash. You want to backup the system and reserved partition (if one is present).

Even if it would work doing a File type backup, could you get all the right files? Do you know all the files that make up the Registry, for example?

If you want to keep your data files backed up separately, you can make a separate partition (logical disk) and keep your data there -- you'll have to point your programs to the new data locations -- and then make separate backups of that partition -- lot's of people set up their hard disks this way.

Easiest thing is to have it all on one disk, backup the entire disk (diskmode backup) and restore the whole 9 yards when needed. slower but simple and you know that you have everything you 'll need.

Diskspace is dirt cheap; instead of trying to finesse the backup protocol, keep things simple.

Also if you want to finesse, then be sure to do a test backup to make sure you can recover. But first, make a full diskmode backup, jsut in case the finessed method doesn't work.

I agree with Scott. You should have a full disk backup for most effective system restoration.

If you have a huge amount of data files, then you might want to exclude them (or some of them) from the backup. You may exclude based on directory path or file type. I have over 400 GB of music files, so I don't wish to include them in all system backups: my backups would be too huge to save many. I exclude the file types of my music files, e.g. *.flac, *.mp3, etc. I do separate backups of those files.