{"id":1772,"date":"2019-11-20T10:13:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T10:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cloudpap.com\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2019-11-20T10:13:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T10:13:33","slug":"windows-backup-and-restore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/windows-backup-and-restore\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Windows Backup\u00a0and Restore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Refer to a feature on the Windows platform that used to be called Windows Backup and Restore Center that was introduced on Windows through Windows Vista.<\/p>\n<p>Backup and Restore allow Windows users to create backups and restore the backups anytime.<\/p>\n<p>Backup and Restore was introduced to replace NTBackup which was removed in Windows 8.1 but reintroduced in Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p>Windows backup serves two functionalities<\/p>\n<p>File Backup<\/p>\n<p>System Image<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>File Backup<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Store and archiving of file and folders in ZIP files.<\/p>\n<p>Windows File Backup and Restore supports two file backup types<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Full Backup &#8211; All files are stored during backup process<\/li>\n<li>Incremental Backup \u2013 Subsequent backup only stores files that have changed since the last backup.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>System Image<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a disk image of backup drive that is saved block by block in a VHD file format and is more efficient for subsequent backup<\/p>\n<p>Backup and Restore supports two different types of backup: file backup and system image.<\/p>\n<p>How Windows does Backup and Restore<\/p>\n<p>Windows backup process utilizes Volume Shadow Copy Service to ensure the consistency of backup by ensuring that files are not changed during the backup process.<\/p>\n<p>In latest Windows versions Volume Shadow Copy Service ensure system level consistency and application level consistency. Application level consistency require an application to be registered a VSS Writers.<\/p>\n<p>Take note<\/p>\n<p>Windows Backup and Restore is most popular backup and restore application but also the Wbadmin command-line utility may provide access to the same service.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Restore of backup is a click away on the Windows Backup and Restore or Wbadmin command-line utility.<\/p>\n<p>If it\u2019s a VHD file, a VHD file can be mounted as an attached disk on Windows Computer or Server.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refer to a feature on the Windows platform that used to be called Windows Backup and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[184],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-tech","tag-windows-backup-and-restore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}