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Windows 7 Backup Command line

Anonymous
2010-05-07T08:38:40+00:00

What is the the command line to perform a backup using command line in windows 7?

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Anonymous
2010-05-07T13:13:11+00:00

What is the the command line to perform a backup using command line in windows 7?

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You can set up Windows Backup to run just about any way you wish and also create a task in task scheduler to run the wbadmin command weekly to create the system image. For sub commands of wbadmin, see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754015(WS.10).aspx

Hope this helps.

Thank You for using Windows 7

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Anonymous
2010-05-07T11:24:47+00:00

Google is your friend. Typing these words into a Google search box

"Windows 7" backup "command line"

will tell you immediately that wbadmin.exe is the command you're looking for.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-01-28T21:22:46+00:00

    But I agree with him. If he had actually answered instead of being a smarta$$ he wouldn't have had to reply and bump a 2 year old question. Now I am bumping it again a year later because of him.

    And yes, this was one of the top hits for "Windows 7" backup "command line" in a Google, so clearly his logic is flawed.

    Thanks.

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-09-20T18:45:59+00:00

    I have a somewhat related question.

    I can create a backup job via the GUI that very specifically backs up various data/directories/users/Libraries.

    I can also use wbadmin as a brute-force tool to backup *everything* on a Windows 7 host.

    What I'm looking for is the best of both worlds here - I want to use wbadmin (so these jobs can be scripted and pushed to hosts) but I also want the utter flexibility that the GUI provides when setting up a job.

    My question is: when setting up a GUI job, are your choices/inputs recorded in a config/initialization/xml file somewhere so I can review EXACTLY what is going on beneath the covers? 

    OR:

    Would it make more sense to heavily customize the USMT xml files and use ScanState for backups if I want very granular control?  I don't really care about a system image since our build process is heavily customized (we use the Windows Deployment Toolkit 2010) - I only care about user data - unfortunately our users place some data outside of their user profile, so I need to be able to fairly dynamically select other locations on disk.

    Thanks.

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