Windows 7 - Differences in Backup Features - Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate, Enterprise?

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• Wednesday, June 03, 2009 9:42 AMAbhinav Mathur [MSFT]MSFT

   
  

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  Hi Myron,
  
  The windows backup feature is avaliable on all the six Windows 7 versions. However, backup to network share is not avaliable Home Basic, Home Premium and Starter versions.

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• Wednesday, June 03, 2009 4:50 PMMyron Johnson

   
  

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  Thanks, Abhinav, for your reply.
  
  Does this mean that ALL versions of Windows 7 will be able to do full system image backups? With Vista, full image backups (Complete PC Backup) are limited to Vista Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise. The other versions of Vista can only do file-level backups.
  
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  Myron Johnson
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• Thursday, June 04, 2009 5:57 AMAbhinav Mathur [MSFT]MSFT

   
  

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  Yes. Full system image backup to local harddisk or DVD is avaliable in all Windows 7 versions.

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• Saturday, June 13, 2009 6:53 PMWallyM

   
  

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  So if I wanted to backup the laptop and the desktop to the media center computer I couldn't, and I would have to buy MS home server? Great. Or upgrade all to Ultimate, which would probably be more $$ than another computer. YAY!
  
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• Sunday, June 14, 2009 1:17 AMMyron Johnson

   
  

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  In the case of Vista, you can do a manual backup (from the Command Prompt, using WBAdmin) and make backups to a network share.

  Myron Johnson
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  Tempe AZ  http://rtait.com

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• Friday, June 19, 2009 11:50 PMCavicchi

   
  

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  Yes. Full system image backup to local harddisk or DVD is avaliable in all Windows 7 versions.

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  This is really great news! Thanks for the information! I am looking forward to knowing what the differences are between all versions of Windows 7.
  
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• Saturday, July 11, 2009 1:53 PMWallyM

   
  

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  hmmm. yes but what about windows 7?  The what about a image restore over the network with windows 7 cmmand prompt...possible?
  

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• Saturday, January 09, 2010 1:01 PMbarkway

   
  

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  Yes, you can't do a backup to a network external drive witout having Professional or above (and this was a really STUPID thing for MSFT to have done since most home systems I've seen , at least from HP, are shipping with Home Prem or below). Ticks me off cuz I got new HP TouchSmart for Xmas but it came with Premium so I can't do a backup to my external storage device (HD) unless I upgrade which I don't want to do because I know it will cause a horror list of problems as upgrades always do.
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