Win8.1 Pro - automated System-Image?

Dennis · 16. Februar 2014

Hi guys!

I've been very busy past weeks. Now I'm on holidays and have to find back the red line in this forum. But - I've need a solution to a problem first. Maybe you can help me.

I just updated Dad's PC to "Win 8.1 Pro".

In "Win 8.0 Pro" we used the "Windows 7 File Rescue"-Feature. That was great. Every sunday, when my Dad get's up after sleep, he turns the PC and does typical "Sunday-morning-things". When he's finished the newspaper, the PC has been completely backup-ed.

So far so good. But the feature is gone in Win 8.1. The only way to get the job done is to use the command-line and the Task-Scheduler in windows. I'm running the command

Code

C:\Windows\System32\wbadmin.exe  start backup -backupTarget:F: -include:C: -allCritical -quiet

once a week and it's doing fine. The downside: There is only one backup. I want to store older backups too. So I need a "don't-delete-old-backups"-option - but I can't find one...

Ideas?

Oh - 3rd-Party-Software is not an option.

davidh2k · 16. Februar 2014

Does he backup to an OpenMediaVault server?

If so i could think of a way around that with OpenMediaVault.

Greetings
David

Dennis · 16. Februar 2014

No, he's my Dad - not a PC-Nerd. :twisted: Just USB-HDD...

davidh2k · 16. Februar 2014

Well... do some batch scripting fhat generates a new folder everytime (with the actual date).

Greetings
David

tekkb · 16. Februar 2014

How many backups??? Can you set 2 jobs. I typically have a folder for a machine and inside the folder I have 2 folders, Bk1 and Bk2. Both are full backups. The newest backup replaces the oldest of the 2.

Dennis · 16. Februar 2014

I would think about two month, because my Dad is regognizing problems really late... So: eight full Backups would be great.

What should I do?

WastlJ · 16. Februar 2014

Heeeeey dennis!

Are you sure it is completely gone?
http://www.borncity.com/blog/2…p-mit-bordmitteln-teil-1/

I would also do it with a little batch file.
- create folder (date or whatever)
- backup to that folder

You can also check how many folders are in a folder. So after 8 backups, you can delete the oldest one.

Dennis · 16. Februar 2014

Hey Sebastian!

The link is refering to Win8, not 8.1...

How do I count Folders in a batch-file??

WastlJ · 16. Februar 2014

Damn Windows... :lol:

As I have no Win here, it is untested. But should work...

Code

setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion


pushd C:\dir\databackup
for /f "tokens=* skip=8" %%F in ('dir /b/o-d/ad') do ( del /s/q %%F


rd /s/q %%F)

You can change the number "8" to how many backups (folders) you wan to keep.
you still need some code around to create folders with date and of course the actual backup.

WastlJ · 17. Februar 2014

Soo...

Here´s a tested version (works here with win 7)

It
- creates a folder with the current date
- deletes the oldest folder if it reaches the number you can specify after "skip="

Code

@ECHO OFF
setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion


ECHO Erstelle Ordner mit aktuellem Datum...
set name=%DATE:/=_%
mkdir C:\01_DATA\test\%name%


ECHO Pruefe und loesche ggf. alte Backups...
pushd C:\01_DATA\test
for /f "tokens=* skip=8" %%F in ('dir /b/o-d/ad') do ( del /s/q %%F


rd /s/q %%F)


ECHO Erstelle neues Backup...
>>hier dein backup code<<

Alles anzeigen

Now you simply need to do the backup part with "start".

Dennis · 18. Februar 2014

Thank you Sebastian, I'll check it out.
Any idea to hide the CMD-Box when it's staring...?

WastlJ · 18. Februar 2014

This is not possible via batch by itself. Maybe with a second Batch, opening the other one...?

Dunno if a good batch to exe converter has an option to do this...

But you can create a VBS that starts your batch file hidden:

Code

CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run "C:\YourBatchFile",0,True

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