#Windows 7 backup command line manual
#Windows 7 backup command line portable
#Windows 7 backup command line windows 7

CONFIGNOTIFICATION - When run as a Scheduled Task, displays a reminder to configure backup.ДЄdditionally, if anyone has any further information about these then by all means let me know. TROUBLESHOOT - Open the 'Backup Troubleshooter' dialog. CONFIGURE /TARGET - Open the backup location configuration window. CONFIGURE - Open the backup settings window. UIMODE /SHOW - Show a dialog with progress of the current or most recent back-up.

BLBBACKUPWIZARD - Wizard for creating a new system image. RESTOREWIZARDADMIN - Advanced(?) wizard for restoring from a back-up. RESTOREWIZARD - Wizard for restoring from a back-up. KICKOFFELEV - Start some kind of back-up, how it differs from above is unknown. KICKOFFJOB - Start an incremental back-up. DISABLEJOB - Disable the automatic back-up job. ENABLEJOB - Enable the automatic back-up job. Options that control functionality directly: Comments included are my own understanding of what this option does. These are not officially documented anywhere (because apparently customers donвЂ™t use the command line, derp) but the following is a definitely incomplete list (partly compiled from here). One could just use wbadmin directly, but it makes sense to use sdclt.exe as it already has some handy command-line parameters to do exactly what we need. Attention turns to sdclt.exe, the backup interface.

#Windows 7 backup command line manual

So, I eventually settled on trying to make manual back-up easier, ideally with just one click on a taskbar shortcut. To perform a manual back-up requires delving into Control Panel and then rooting around to find the manual back-up button вЂ“ inconvenient at best and confusing for those not so technologically-minded. Solutions are definitely possible using PowerShell, they ainвЂ™t pretty and by my reckoning difficult to get stable in the face of things like changing drive letters. This has some UX issues (what if I want to restore files instead of backing up?) and while Windows Backup is pretty good at time-based scheduling, Task Scheduler doesnвЂ™t have events for things like inserting a USB drive.

My initial search was for a zero-click solution: the backup drive is inserted and then the backup is started automatically.

#Windows 7 backup command line portable

Windows 7вЂ™s backup tool is by no means the best and it suffers somewhat when it comes to automation, but it does have the advantage of being built-in to Windows вЂ“ in my opinion one should always make an effort to use the built-in solutions first before reaching out to third-party stuff.ДЄnyway, the backups were to be made on a USB portable hard drive and rather than setting a strict schedule a more on-demand approach was required, where the user could plug in the drive, hit a button and then wait for the back-up to complete as often (or not) as they desired.

#Windows 7 backup command line windows 7

IвЂ™ve been looking for a way to automate (as much as possible) system backups on a Windows 7 machine, specifically using the in-built backup utility. One-click backup in Windows 7/Vista February 20, 2013 Hello, you've reached the personal website of Simon Worthington, sometimes called Wo! Net.