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Russell Mickler, Principal Consultant, has over 17 years of professional experience leading and managing IT organizations.
NTBACKUP and Windows Vista
Written on April 4, 2007
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Well if you haven’t heard it already, your backups in XP using ntbackup.exe will not work in Vista. Vista “upgrades” backup to a new program that is entirely UI driven, backs up only by file extensions, and creates spanned *.zip files instead of a *.bak file.
Oh, it’s even more glorious. In the “new” backup, you can’t even select which file and folder locations you want, only file types on all of your volumes.
In effect, native backup is now entirely worthless in Vista forcing you to purchase a real backup program from some ISV. This could be a scary wake-up call if you tried to upgrade Vista clean, backing up all of your drive’s contents with ntbackup.exe only to learn that it’s not available – and not backwards compatible – within Vista. There is no facility to read in the file and even attempt a restore.
Yikes!
R
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Russell Mickler, MCSE | CISSP says:
Commented posted on: April 12, 2007
You know, Rick, I didn’t think about Live One Care. Yes, perhaps Microsoft is both trying to cripple functionality for anti-trust regulators but also trying to compete in the online data vaulting services market.
Although, after paying a premium price for Ultimate, it sure would have had been nice to use NTBACKUP to unpackage my backups from the previous version (grin) –
R
Rick G says:
Commented posted on: April 7, 2007
Well, I would say your assumptions about the requirement for a third party backup program would be correct. This may be Microsoft’s ploy to market its own third party “all-in-one” program – Windows Live One Care (http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-us/default.htm) which has a backup tool of its own and works on Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista.
The ploy, is we now have Microsoft offering products seperate from the operating system to generate even more profits, but more than likely it is designed to eliminate the attacks about unfair marketing practices.