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Can't back up system

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  1. 2004/07/26
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    bobbob10 Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi

    I'm just trying to back up my system to a floppy with the back up option under system tool: XP.

    But keep getting this error:

    Backup Status
    Operation: Backup
    Active backup destination: File
    Media name: "Backup.bkf created 7/27/2004 at 1:52 PM "


    Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy:80042301
    Aborting Backup.



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    The operation did not successfully complete.

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    Any help would be appreciated.
     
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  4. 2004/07/27
    PeteC

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    Not possible - a floppy holds 1.4 Mb - your System State several hundred Mb - over 350 Mb on my m/c. Use the drop down drive list - defaulted to A:, to select a backup location. Hit Browse and if you are asked for a floppy kill the message and an explorer type dialogue box will appear.
     
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    So whats the best thing to do? save it to my desk top?, then burn onto dvd?

    Under advanced in the back up utillity it won't let me back up the whole computer.

    My file system is ntfs?

    I did a test with just a few files and i was able to back them up, just not the whole lot, my hardrive has been partioned, would this cause any probs?

    Thanks for the help, please bear with me as i've never really tryed to back up my system before.

    But this shadowing idea seems like it could work very well.
     
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    I would do two things if you want to back up your entire system - bearing in mind thad a DVD will only hold ~4.7 Gb

    Unfortunately Backup will not backup directly to CD/DVD, only to another drive.

    Two stage strategy .....

    Use Automated System Recovery to back up the C: drive to another partition - effectively to ghost it. The resulting file may exceed 4.7 Gb depending on what is loaded to the C: drive. You will need a floppy too to boot from if you ever need to use the backup. I must admit I have not done this to DVD so do not know if a recovery would work -so leave a copy on the partition to which you saved it. See Automated System Recovery in Help and Support for more info.

    HTH

    To run ASR to recover a Windows failure you boot from the XP CD and hit F2 when prompted in the text part of setup. The HD is formatted and Windows reinstalled - when asked you insert the floppy and your settings, installed programs, etc are ghosted back to the C: drive. It has helped me on a couple of occasions. The computer is restored to the state it was in when the ASR backup was made, so this needs to be done whenever major changes are made - overwritethe existing backup file if you like. The more I think about it the less convinced I am that it will work from a DVD, but I really don't know, not tried that route.

    Second stage is to use the backup facility to back up your data in ~ 4.5 Gb chunks. Save to another partition and burn to DVD. You may have to copy the DVD back to disk to restore. Note that the backedup data will be held in a backup file *.bkf and not as you see it now in the drive.
     
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