Some people who can't/don't want to buy extra hard drives for backup of a couple of PCs, could use one PC to backup the other. It creates a disk image and includes everything. It's that you can't select to exclude (as far as I know) particular folders from a backup set. I must comment about a feature I find terribly bad in Win 7. Didn't try to schedule Job through the GUI because new scheduler in Win7 is so different that I presume NTBackup will fail to create it, or worse mess up the new scheduler database or something. Tested running a backup and verify and worked Ok. (If you are looking for NTBackup for Server 2008 to backup your exchange store click here) bkf files you have lying around are still worth something, after all. It might not be ideal to continue using NT Backup as your daily backup solution, but it’s good to know those. You’ll then be able to catalog and restore your files as needed.įor the most part, NT Backup works just fine under Windows 7. Right-click the Files tree in recovery mode and click Catalog File. BKF files won’t be registered with this application, you’ll have to point NT Backup to the. Just find these files from the system32 folder on any Windows XP machine (or Virtual Windows XP, if you have it installed):Ĭopy them on to the Windows 7 machine and then run ntbackup.exe. That’s right: running ntbackup.exe under Windows 7 is entirely possible, easy to do, and generally works well – although tape drives and other odd storage devices won’t be supported.
What’s worse is that the Extensible Storage Manager – one of the Windows services NT Backup is built on – is no longer included with Windows 7, so it doesn’t seem too likely that simply copying ntbackup.exe from an XP machine would fix anything. That’s right: NT Backup files (*.bkf files) are officially obsolete and cannot be opened with Windows 7. Unfortunately, “in with the new” always seems to imply “out with the old”, and if “the old”, in your scenario, happens to be the format in which all your precious backups are saved, “the new” becomes pretty useless pretty quick. These improvements were sorely needed, though: the widely-used, well-known NT Backup was getting pretty long in the tooth. Windows 7 (and Server 2008 R2) have great new backup tools.
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