Backup User and System Files

Brink said:

Ski,

You would only have one backup at the same location. You would not want to rename or move it. Doing so will make it unrestorable. You can still have multiple incremental backups if each one is saved in a different location.

Would moving the backup to another location temporarily (for archival purposes) and moving it back to the original location prior to restoring work properly? Also, does this apply to system images?

Thanks Shawn,

This means I need a separate partition for each backup that I do not want overwritten by the scheduled backup? Is there no way to assign the backup location to a specific folder?

So, if I change the settings of my scheduled backup to exclude the system image will it erase the existing system image?

Even with 221GB of free space letting windows chose how to manage space it still overwrites the old system image with the new. Is scheduling a daily backup the reason it cannot hold more than one image?

Does the incremental nature of the backup only apply to files and folders as opposed to the system image?

Is there a legal way to test the recovery withought erasing the original installation?