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Hi,

I installed Windows7 on a new hard drive and made a couple backups to another external, one with the updated OS and another with my main programs installed. At the time I kept my old hard drive intact and later used it to recover some files I forgot to back up. Since everything appears to be running fine I reformatted the drive and plan on using it as my main backup hard drive.

I moved the two backups I made earlier to the formatted drive and have validated them but have a couple questions. Apparently when I made the first backup no other external drives were attached and it's labeled G:\My backups\New Install. However, the 2nd backup I made is labeled I:\My backups\New Programs, and the third I:\My backups\Full Backup. That's how they're labeled now yet all on the I: drive. I've tried to rename G:\My backups\New Install to I:\My backups\New Install with no luck. It doesn't appear so, but is it necessary to rename, and how do I do it? The icon next to the name and location also shows a disk icon, rather than what looks like a enclosure, what's the significance in that?

Also, I plan on backing up my documents, photos and music more often to the drive I moved the first two backups from, so when I made the I:\My backups\Full Backup I excluded my User folder, and the Public folder. Am I going to run into problems if I need to restore a "Full BackUp"?

Do I need to worry about the %appdata% folder not being in the Full BackUp? I'll probably only run Full BackUps from time to time and schedule user and public document folders daily. Are there better schemes?

Sat, 07/28/2012 - 20:04
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Hikertrash wrote:

I moved the two backups I made earlier to the formatted drive and have validated them but have a couple questions. Apparently when I made the first backup no other external drives were attached and it's labeled G:\My backups\New Install. However, the 2nd backup I made is labeled I:\My backups\New Programs, and the third I:\My backups\Full Backup. That's how they're labeled now yet all on the I: drive. I've tried to rename G:\My backups\New Install to I:\My backups\New Install with no luck.

OK, I was able to figure out how to move or label the backup.

I'm still most interested in what's going to happen if I do a restore of the "Full BackUp" with an appsdata folder, and/or if I can add it it to the tib now, and select it for any future backups?

Sat, 07/28/2012 - 22:28
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Hikertrash wrote:

I moved the two backups I made earlier to the formatted drive and have validated them but have a couple questions. Apparently when I made the first backup no other external drives were attached and it's labeled G:\My backups\New Install. However, the 2nd backup I made is labeled I:\My backups\New Programs, and the third I:\My backups\Full Backup. That's how they're labeled now yet all on the I: drive. I've tried to rename G:\My backups\New Install to I:\My backups\New Install with no luck.

OK, I was able to figure out how to move or label the New Install backup.

I'm still most interested in what's going to happen if I do a restore of the "Full BackUp" without an appsdata folder, and/or if I can add it it to the tib now, and select it for any future backups?

Guess I'll experiment while I have the chance

Sat, 07/28/2012 - 22:32