{"id":406,"date":"2008-12-24T09:48:10","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T09:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2008\/12\/24\/windows-7-s-better-backup-features.aspx"},"modified":"2008-12-24T09:48:10","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T09:48:10","slug":"windows-7-s-better-backup-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7&#039;s Better Backup Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, while lamenting Microsoft&#8217;s poorly-articulated Previous Versions story, I alluded to an earlier post in which I detailed my attempts to reproduce Mac OS X&#8217;s &#8220;Time Machine&#8221; feature under Windows Vista.  <\/p>\n<p>At the time (mid-late October 2007) I found myself stymied by a lack of configurability in Vista&#8217;s File Backup utility. Specifically, there was no way to directly specify which files or folders to backup &#8211; only highly generalized categories like &#8220;Documents&#8221; or &#8220;Music.&#8221; 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. <\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/155959\/windows7_backup.html?tk=rss_news\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/155959\/windows7_backup.html?tk=rss_news\">http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/155959\/windows7_backup.html?tk=rss_news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, while lamenting Microsoft&#8217;s poorly-articulated Previous Versions story, I alluded to an earlier post in which I detailed my attempts to reproduce Mac OS X&#8217;s &#8220;Time Machine&#8221; feature under Windows Vista. At the time (mid-late October 2007) I found myself stymied by a lack of configurability in Vista&#8217;s File Backup utility. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}