Resolved Window 10 backups failure.

0x80070013 is normally listed as "media is write protected", so you need to make sure you have the right permissions on your backup media.

To see your permissions, right click the media (drive, folder or file), click on Properties, and select the Security tab.
On the Security tab, click the Advanced button.
Select Change next to Owner at the top of the new window that opened.
Type in your account name in the lower box (labeled Enter the object name to select) and click the button Check Names.
Select your account name and click OK.
Below Owner check the box next to Replace owner on subcontainers and objects and press OK.
Select your account name under Groups or user names and check the Full Control box.
Select OK to change ownership.

See if this fixes your backup issues.

 

This has been mentioned in relation to the 1809 update and Windows Backup as a fix that works.

I did not run into this problem, since my main PC is only running ver 1709 (and then I don't user Windows Backup either).

So as noted above perform these steps (make a note of the current owner so you could revert back):

Select the folder (or drive if you have the backup in the root of the drive) where you make your backups, click on Properties, and select the Security tab.
On the Security tab, click the Advanced button.


Select Change next to Owner at the top of the new window that opened.



Type in your account name in the lower box (labeled Enter the object name to select) and click the button Check Names.


Select your account name and click OK.




Below Owner check the box next to Replace owner on subcontainers and objects and at the bottom check the box Replace all child object permission..... press OK.



Select your account name under Groups or user names, click Edit and check the Full Control box.




Select OK (2x) to change ownership.

Now see if Windows Backup works again...

 

Try setting up a new backup task, but yea, I wouldn't rely on MS backup either and invest in a 3rd party solution.

 

Since it's release some 10 -15years ago I have used SynchbackSE to back up my data at intervals ranging from every 30 minutes to daily or weekly. There is a free version of Synchback which will do everything you want in terms of data backup and can be configured to run on a schedule or manually. Important to note that for scheduled backups the drive on which the backup is to be made is powered up. So if you are backing up to a separate drive within the computer the backup may be scheduled as the drive will be running. If you back up to an external drive scheduling will only work if the drive is plugged in and powered up at the scheduled time but equally well can be initiated manually (not on a schedule) at a time convenient to you when the external drive is fired up.

I choose to mirror the data on the source drive to the back up drive - files that are on the source drive but not on the backup drive will be copied across be they new files or modified versions of existing files - files which are on the backup drive but no longer on the source drive will be deleted.

Be aware that this software is designed to backup data only - it does NOT and cannot make a copy of your C drive - to do this you require imaging software such as Acronis which I also use on a twice weekly basis.

 

As noted in my previous post Synchback is for DATA ONLY - if you want to image your OS drive you will need to use imaging software such as Acronis. I'm sure that there are many others, but I have only used Acronis.

 

As I have posted before that Synchback is for the backup of data files only and cannot backup your entire Windows drive. Unless you use disk imaging software it is not possible to copy your Windows drive to a backup drive as many files are in use when the PC is booted up and cannot be copied. AFAIK Windows Backup effectively images your drive, i.e. creates a copy on another drive - internal or external.

Would you clarify this statement please ....

Do you mean that you have the software installations on C drive backed up as part of Windows Backup, i.e. contained in the disk image saved to your external drive?

or

Do you mean that you have the installation files for the software - the .exe files that you ran to install the software initially saved on C drive and backed up to your external drive?

My feeling is that you are referring to the disk image produced by Windows Backup in which case Synchback is not an option. As I have already posted you need to use disk imaging software - you found Acronis difficult to use, but there are other options, none of which I have any experience of. FWIW here is one that I have heard of before, but it may be no more straightforward in use than Acronis ...

Macrium Reflect 7

 

As I have already posted you need to use third party disk imaging software as an alternative to Windows Backup to create a disk image. An image backup copies everything on your drive, including partitions and the boot sector. It’s the only way to back up your Windows installation properly, with all of your programs and settings. I assume that this is what you want to do.

 

As I posted earlier in this thread I use Acronis with which you have had difficulties in the past and have no experience of similar software. However I did point you to Macrium Reflect 7.

 

Did Macrium give any details of the 81 files which it failed to backup? If it did post a couple of examples here.

The fact that this issue has been noted on 2 computers suggests that the destination drive may be the source of the problem.

Is the external drive on which you are saving the image formatted NTFS rather than FAT32? If it is formatted FAT32 it will only accept files less than 4GB.