Thread: Backup Windows Vista

What Microsoft has applied technology to create backup Windows Vista?

When Microsoft decided to release six versions of Vista (Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise and Ultimate), it was necessary to make Windows Vista Home Basic as an entry-level product for $ 200, which is not certain functions, and because many users want Windows Vista Ultimate purchased for $ 400. To some extent, this has been well proven marketing the old way. However, an allocation of functional capabilities Microsoft has meant that users lose control of their own data.

In Windows Vista Home Basic and Windows Vista Home Premium Microsoft did not include feature called earlier versions (Previous Versions). It keeps old versions of documents and files, so that you, for instance, can revert yesterday's version of the budget tables, if you have changed and saved the table today. In Windows Vista Business, Enterprise, or Ultimate you, right-clicking on a file or folder and selecting Properties, can apply to this remarkable opportunity, if available any backups, there will Previous Versions tab and you can find old versions of files.

As with Windows XP, all versions of Windows Vista include System Restore, which can remove the change of system files and settings, while leaving intact the files users. Previous Versions function is the same Restoration of the system, just for your own files, but you can select specific files to be restored. I Restoration of previous versions and enjoy the service system called Windows Vista Volume Shadow Copy (Hidden copy volumes). In this lies an important technical feature of this process: they both actually used pictures of disk activity, so that files can be restored to its former state.

Unfortunately, and for the rest of this important function workers arrived Microsoft marketing department. Even though that version of Windows Vista Home Basic Home Premium and make backup copies of files, including the files of users, the owners of these publications could not apply to standby copy of their own data. Want evidence that the backups there? Run Windows Anytime Upgrade from Microsoft to upgrade from Home to Ultimate. When that is done, the tab will appear earlier versions, and there will show the changes made to files, which were made before the update.



We have earlier versions and bad properties. Windows Vista reserves 15% of free space on each disk to archive user data and system files, and this value can be changed only from the command line. There is no way to selectively delete a file or folder from the list of backups, and you may find there an old version of a file, which you thought about that removed him forever. Unfortunately, this is part of the programme, and you either accept its terms or not. Disabling Previous versions leads to removal of user data backups, but it also removes all control from the point of recovery Recovery System.

Users of Windows Vista will probably have to tolerate it, but decided to hide Microsoft deliberately backup data user looks at least misleading. If Windows Vista makes backup copies of files the user, it has the right to see, use and remove them. Users should not buy an expensive upgrade to Vista Ultimate only to restore the data from backups. Microsoft should either make Previous versions available in Home-media system or change the Volume Shadow Copy so that the user's files are not copied when the feature is not available.



There is another solution to this situation, which was proposed MakGi Charlie (Charlie McGee):
Windows Vista Document Ransom Edition. This would allow for "minimal" fee to use the opportunity earlier versions. After all, if you have some very important documents, it is more likely that you would be simply a disaster sluchis them anything irreversible.