A couple of weeks ago, while lamenting Microsoft’s poorly-articulated Previous Versions story, I alluded to an earlier post in which I detailed my attempts to reproduce Mac OS X’s “Time Machine” feature under Windows Vista.
At the time (mid-late October 2007) I found myself stymied by a lack of configurability in Vista’s File Backup utility. Specifically, there was no way to directly specify which files or folders to backup – only highly generalized categories like “Documents” or “Music.” Worse still, Vista File Backup made a habit of skipping files it considered to be part of the operating system, including the myriad .aspx files I had created as part of my web development projects.
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