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The photo was when backup completed , creating the recover cd :

– tried few blank CDs

– with the version system win10pro update, better to create the newest recover CD for works ?

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I have never bothered with the built in backup system(s), since their innovation. I use a third party program. Most of these, if that is your direction, you can set to a schedule. I use an old copy of Acronis, but there are several free ones available, which are just as good. If you are interested, I have been playing with a few lately, and have found, of all, this one is marginally the best for me.

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I used ‘Drive Image 5’ from 200? to 2012 on a 2000 Dell desktop triple boot (98se, 2k, & XP). Currently have 2000 Dell (no internet) & 2012 Dell connected to a KVM switch.

My 2012 Dell desktop originally had W7, which got the free upgrade to W10 in 2016. Recently I’ve used the ‘Backup and Restore (Windows 7)’ which is on my 2012 W10 Dell. While ‘Backup and Restore (Windows 7)’ is very slow for creating an image, it restores images faster. While I’m sure it’s not the best, it’s free if you have a W7/W10 updated PC like myself, plus it’s probably already on your PC. I restored ‘system images’ several times in the last week (due to my 1703 to 1709 update / McAfee problem), and it worked perfectly every time.

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Just started my first backup and watching it go. I am doing all cloud for now, i have local resources tied up with live backup data, this is a test for me for the moment.

I’ve created and unofficial document for this purpose.

Let me know if you have questions or would like any…

Thanks km96svt​! I’ve pinned this to featured content.

Congrats on the new product.

Please can you provide more details about the backup sets and policies supported, and the licensing and pricing schema (per node, per disk space. )?

One more point, is it only agent-based backup or does it support agent-less backup?

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Thanks for being the first to comment on this forum!

To answer you question about pricing – it’s very simple. We have various tiers, each of which includes a set number of servers/devices being protected plus a defined pool of cloud storage capacity, priced as an annual subscription. If you want to add more devices above the selected tier, or if your data grows to exceed the pool capacity, you simply upgrade to the next higher tier, and you’re good to go.

On your other questions, we are agent based. The agent is installed on the physical or virtual machine, and each client can be configured for its own local selections (filesystem,systemsstate,networkshares,SQL Server,Exchange,SharePoint, etc). You can configure one set of selections per data source, and apply multiple schedules. Data is retained for 90 calendar days by default, regardless of the number of daily backups performed. Additional retention can be configured via archiving rules.

Backup profiles can be configured and assigned to devices during deployment to automate selections and schedules and simplify the initial installation.

Our backups are file- and folder-based, which offers advantages over image-based and agentless solutions because of the improved, speed, granular selection, and smaller storage sizes. This architecture, plus our built-in deduplication and compression, results in sending very little data to/from the cloud on a daily basis.

Perhaps cgroot​ or backup-artist​ can add more detail.

Post by PurpleGurl » Sat Apr 23, 2011 4:08 pm

Do we have plans for System Restore functionality? I hope if we do that we can make it more efficient and avoid the MS mistakes.

For instance, Windows requires that you have SR enabled on drive C for *any* other volume to be protected. Also, what I hate about SR is that it always enables it for new drives and non-system drives. When I use it, I only want it for my system drive. As for my own data, I have backups and all. I only want the System Restore protection in case it won’t boot or something is seriously wrong in Windows itself. My personal files have nothing to do with it booting or not. Yet, if you enable it from it being disabled, it is turned on for every drive in your system, and if you plug in an external drive for the first time in a while, it is protected too. There are no registry keys for most of this behavior. No, this is all hidden in files inside a rootkit in an alternate data stream on the C-volume (that is why Windows requires the C-drive to have it enabled for any drive to work, since it all is hidden in the hidden SR files which are in with what is being protected). They basically set it up as a master-slave sort of configuration.

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Post by PurpleGurl » Sat Apr 23, 2011 9:11 pm

True. That happens enough with System Restore. But you are never to tamper with the hidden SR files. Really, all you can do in that case is disinfect, then disable and restart System Restore to delete any backed up infected files and to repair SR if any of the backed up files are deleted. The problem with how SR works is that it is incremental, so to get back to whatever date, any changes since then have to also be undone. If any backed up files are missing, System Restore might hose Windows.

Yes, I learned the above lesson the hard way. A friend had a virus and it was even in her SR backups. I performed some overrides to get into the “System Volume Information” folder and deleted the infected backups. But then I realized she had other problems and tried to restore sometime before the virus. I finally did a clean install for her. Now, if I had known all that, I would have turned off System Restore to let Windows purge it and then re-enable it.

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Post by PurpleGurl » Tue May 03, 2011 12:46 am

I do see the need to keep the MS behavior, at least outwardly, since quite a few applications use the System Restore APIs. We don’t need to do it the same way, since applications are blind to how the sets are stored. The applications only need the service there, and with compatible APIs, from what I understand.

I believe we are also free to expand the SR concept. I mean, why can’t SR and SFC be more coordinated? Others expressed the desire to have a fixed backup set to a specific time in the way past like week 1 (as opposed to a relative set). If ROS keeps a small footprint, then a full backup image specific to the OS itself would be feasible.

I also like the checksum list on the server idea. Then corrupted files can be replaced from a known safe source (and this mechanism could be used later on for updates). It wouldn’t hurt to have a separate layer of protection in case the ROS site list gets compromised. That could mean keeping copies of the list from an older time (during the same revision period for all the files) on the ROS server and/or the individual PCs. I mean, if it was one version last week and the file list was one way, and it is the same version this week, but the CRCs are different, then could the ROS site list be trusted? I guess what I’m saying is to have the CRC list in multiple places which are updated at different times within the same revision levels. Any one place can be compromised, either by hackers/disgruntleds or by a ROS-specific virus.

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Windows Backup Questions

So, here’s the thing… And I’ll try to keep the back-story short to get to the questions for which I need to find the answers.

I’ve been running a secondary desktop hp machine with Windows 10 installed ever since it was first offered for free from Microsoft. My computer has worked fine, except every once in a great while I had trouble booting up. I isolated the problem to the SATA 750 GB hard drive cable that kept wiggling out of it’s socket (Don’t know who decided that an edge-type circuit board connector was better than a real two piece connector like on an old ATA drive, especially for power, but that’s “water under the bridge”.

Basically what happened was that the bypass capacitor on the hard drive controller board shorted out and shut down the computer’s power supply. I removed the drive and replaced it with a spare 160 GB SATA drive. The power supply and the rest of the computer seemed unharmed. I loaded an authorized version of Windows 7, and was able to download the latest version of Windows 10.

Now, I needed to find my backups and at least get some of my files and applications back up and running. I didn’t want to use a Disk Image for two reasons. I was not sure how a 160GB drive would fare using a 750GB Image… and secondly, I couldn’t find a copy of the image file :-).

I had made a whole bunch of backups using the Windows 7 Backup and Restore program. Unfortunately Windows 10 couldn’t find them as legitimate files.

So, here are my questions:
One of the ancillary files that goes with a backup is MediaID.bin. What’s inside this file? I’ve read conflicting views as to whether this file must accompany the backup, while other accounts describe it as just a temporary file that can be deleted after the backup is produced. How are a bunch of MediaID.bin files reconciled if two or more backups are sent to the same backup drive? Suppose the User wants to send a backup to the same backup drive from two different computers?

“Backup and Restore” was the go-to application for Windows 7. It is still available for Windows 10, or at least it used to be… There was an option to just do a backup of certain files and folders, or include a System Image. In the new Windows 10, if you go with what is recommended by Microsoft, an Image File is always included automatically in the backup.

Has the file structure of Windows 7 Backup now differ from the new Windows 10 Backup? Are the files still in the ZIP format for just the Backup part?

Any help would be appreciated.

P.S. Anyone know where to go to the local store to buy a Surface Mounted bypass capacitor? Just when you need a Radio Shack.

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Hi,
I would like to ask you about your experience or recomendation of backup software. I would like to backup to a remote PC (a PC of my family members in a different location in the city). These are my requirements:

I will do offline backup at the beginning as it is a lot of data

4TB and then I would like to do differential backups (only the new/modified stuff will be backed up)

The operating system on both PC will be windows 7/windows 10

The backup shedule would be configurable both time/bandwidth

Could you recommend me a software (preferably free) that could cover my needs?

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You will need an FTP server running on the machine you are wanting to back up to.

Big problem with FTP is that it is completely insecure, i do not recomend you transmitting your data this way.

If you have halfway decent router at guest location the best free option is:
Setup VPN server on remote computer’s router.
Have Macrium reflect free and syncback free on pc you want to backup.
Let macrium run differntial backup on system and save to another drive or partition.
Schedule PC to initiate VPN connection to remote network
Schedule syncback to copy data to network share on remote network
Schedule PC to close VPN connection after say 1 hour

If you dont have a router capable of creating a VPN server at the remote location then you should pay the $30 for syncback SE which will handle SFTP.
Then you can setup your SFTP server (I like filezilla) on remote computer
Still use macrium to run differential backup
Have syncback connect to SFTP server and copy backup to remote computer

boosted1g

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There is not a free software that can do differential backups to a pc not on your WAN.

You will need to 2 stage it.
You can use marcrium reflect free to create a disk image of the new stuff.

As far as making the remote connection you will either have to use FTP or VPN.
Depending on connection speed the initial 4TB backup is unreasonable, if you both had a syncronious 1gbps connection (so 1gbps per second both download and upload), it would take an hour to copy 4TB, 10 hours for 100mbps and so on).

To perform a remote backup you will either have to use VPN or FTP connection.
For VPN you could use scheduled tasks to run script to start and stop the VPN connection, although the easiset way to do it is to spend $30 on Syncback SE which will allow you to either connect to FTPS/SFTP server or have percise start and stop scripts to setup the VPN connection.

Hello all, I’ve been a Symantec/Norton user since Peter used to stand there with his arms folded, waiting for Windows to boot. I finally, I believe, accomplished a successful full system backup.

I’m wondering if there is any online help on how to easily, comfortably, and non painful way to learn all there is to know about Backup.

My main concern is I don’t see an easy way to assuage my paranoia about my backup being “complete”. I wanted my entire root drive backed up in case disaster, with the possibility of a restore ensured.

Any feedback, direction, solace would be appreciated.

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Norton is not really designed as a product to do full system backups. It is designed to save user data to online or local storage. If you want to do a full system backup, there are many options including the Windows backup(link is external), or other 3rd party disc imaging software. I have been using Macrium Reflect(link is external) free version to image my hard drives. Others here many have other suggestions.

Re: Norton Backup Primer

I have Backup configured to backup one folder with 200Gb data on “Automatic” schedule. I saw the red “x”, opened Backup, and it tells me nothing besides my data is at risk! The last time the backup ran (a month ago, according to the Manage Backup Sets window) it said there were errors, and I scanned the list of 40K files at the time and gave up because all said they were backed up.

So I checked the NAS drive, plenty of space, and a huge folder in the N360 folder date stamped today. My understanding was that only the files that change are backed up. So I started a backup and 10 hours later it was only 5% complete. I watched some of the files displayed as they were being backed up and all were old and had been backed up previously. Why is Norton backing those up again? Why will the backup take 200 hours? I’ve got to make a living with my workstation and this is nuts.

Continuing my rant, why are the backup folders labeled with codes? Because files are compressed to save space? Are you kidding? I’m only backing up 200Gb on a 4 Tb NAS, so why compress the files? All I want is for Backup to send a copy of any file I add or change to my NAS; can’t that be done simply, every time I close a file?

So, why should I continue to use this agonizingly slow, mysterious archive naming program? How can I get Backup to work efficiently? Surely one of the Forum Members, as above, has had similar problems and either found a way to fix it or found a better, simpler program, like Backup995 that actually is intuitive and WORKS..

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#22 Post by ComputerBob » 2012-10-15 18:35

When I was a newbie, using Debian Stable (KDE3), I made backups of my entire installation because I often did things that broke my installation.

When I was using Debian Testing (KDE, then Xfce), I made backups of my entire installation because, more than once, upgrades did things that broke my installation.

A couple of years ago, I went back to using Debian Stable (Xfce). Since then, I haven’t made (or needed) any backups of my entire installation.

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#27 Post by Anteaus » 2012-10-18 21:46

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#28 Post by debil » 2012-10-19 14:08

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#29 Post by scoobertron » 2012-10-21 14:06

I do, but am a bit conflicted about doing so at present. I recently moved my /home to a different partition, and was contemplating just backing up /home, since there are only a couple of config files in /etc which are non-standard, and it would only take a couple of minutes to change if I needed to to reinstall, and I could always symlink them to my home directory so they are included in the backup. However, I have started installing a bunch of things from source, so I might also want a whole system backup to preserve those if I ended up reinstalling.

That said, I break my system a lot less than in the past, so I have only had to reinstall a couple of times in the last few years. (once when I messed up and deleted the partition I was actually using, and once by choice to move /home to a separate partition – I felt it would be quicker to reinstall on a new partition and use the current OS partition as home than to move /home to another disk, repartition, copy it back and edit fstab. In my younger linux days, being able to rsync back to a working backup quickly and easily saved my ass on a few occasions.

Download Display Driver Uninstaller DDU – Display Driver Uninstaller is a driver removal utility that can help you completely uninstall AMD/NVIDIA graphics card drivers and packages from your system, without leaving leftovers behind (including registry keys, folders and files, driver store).

The AMD/NVIDIA video drivers can normally be uninstalled from the Windows Control panel, this driver uninstaller program was designed to be used in cases where the standard driver uninstall fails, or anyway when you need to thoroughly delete NVIDIA and ATI video card drivers. The current effect after you use this driver removal tool will be similar as if its the first time you install a new driver just like a fresh, clean install of Windows. As with any tool of this kind, we recommend creating a new system restore point before using it, so that you can revert your system at any time if you run into problems.

If you have a problem installing an older driver or newer one, give it a try as there are some reports that it fix those problems. DDU is an application that is programmed by Ghislain Harvey aka Wagnard in our forums, Guru3D.com is the official download partner for this handy application.

Recommended usage

• The tool can be used in Normal mode but for absolute stability when using DDU, Safemode is always the best.
• Make a backup or a system restore (but it should normally be pretty safe).
• It is best to exclude the DDU folder completely from any security software to avoid issues.

Keep note that NVIDIA/AMD did not have anything to do with this, I do not work at or for NVIDIA/AMD and they should not be held responsible for anything that may go wrong with this application.

Requirement:

• Windows 7 up to Windows 11
• NVIDIA, AMD, Intel GPUs
• Also support basic Realtek audio driver cleanup.
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8 or higher

Recommended usage

• You MUST disconnect your internet or completely block Windows Update when running DDU until you have re-installed your new drivers.
• DDU should be used when having a problem uninstalling/installing a driver or when switching GPU brand.
• DDU should not be used every time you install a new driver unless you know what you are doing.
• DDU will not work on network drive. Please install in a local drive (C:, D: or else).
• The tool can be used in Normal mode but for absolute stability when using DDU, Safemode is always the best.
• If you are using DDU in normal mode, Clean, reboot, clean again, reboot.
• Make a backup or a system restore (but it should normally be pretty safe).
• It is best to exclude the DDU folder completely from any security software to avoid issues.

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While I have rooted 6 SM-N910T devices using CF auto root, I have not needed to install TWRP recovey since all 6 run latest 6.0.1 stock ROM with no need for any custom ROM. Noting how restoring a TWRP backup restores everything including contacts, sms messages, wallpaper, apps, and keeps root, I created a full backup and saved to SD card. To my surprise, restoring this full backup reset SM-N910T back to factory losing all personalization including Google accounts, contacts, sms, wallpaper, apps, and losing root.

I twrp installed supersu 2.82 zip and restored root. Then restored same full backup stored on SD card and again reset phone back to factory.

Why is restoring TWRP backup not restoring all personalization including Google accounts, contacts, sms, wallpaper, apps, and keeping root mirroring how it was prior to making TWRP backup?

What steps can I try to restore everything back to just prior making the full TWRP backup?

Appreciate your help and insights.

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• Jan 10, 2020

While I have rooted 6 SM-N910T devices using CF auto root, I have not needed to install TWRP recovey since all 6 run latest 6.0.1 stock ROM with no need for any custom ROM. Noting how restoring a TWRP backup restores everything including contacts, sms messages, wallpaper, apps, and keeps root, I created a full backup and saved to SD card. To my surprise, restoring this full backup reset SM-N910T back to factory losing all personalization including Google accounts, contacts, sms, wallpaper, apps, and losing root.

I twrp installed supersu 2.82 zip and restored root. Then restored same full backup stored on SD card and again reset phone back to factory.

Why is restoring TWRP backup not restoring all personalization including Google accounts, contacts, sms, wallpaper, apps, and keeping root mirroring how it was prior to making TWRP backup?

What steps can I try to restore everything back to just prior making the full TWRP backup?

Appreciate your help and insights.

TWRP backups don’t include user data. If you look closely you notice the date partition in TWRP it state “not including used data”. If your device has root you can patch TWRP to “including user data” when saving backups.

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As a Geek Squad Ask an Agent representive, I recieve plenty of calls. One of the questions I invariably have to ask is ‘Do you have your recovery DVD’s?’ and the answer is always ‘No.. doesn’t the computer come with them?’

Macintosh computers (that’s Apple) *do* in most cases come with OS recovery DVD’s. PC’s – which include popular brands such as ASUS, Dell, HP, Toshiba, etc – do NOT come with OS Recovery DVD’s (in most cases).

What are Recovery DVD’s?

Recovery DVD’s are a copy of your system’s OS, or Operating System. In most cases, this is Windows 7. You’ll notice you have a sticker on the side, back or bottom of your PC/Laptop with your licence key. You don’t need this, but this states you own the copy of Windows 7, so you’re free to back it up for your machine.

The backup proccess also makes a copy of most of the programs you install on the machine. If you have a lot of programs, MP3’s, or video files already installed, it’ll use more DVD’s.

For instructions on how to backup, refer to this Microsoft Document:

If you don’t understand this, refer to this:

I would recommend an external hard drive for backup, *and* a between 4 to 7 DVD’s for a ‘doomsday’ situation – such as cases where the recovery external hard drive is corrupt or has been infected by a virus. This rarely happens, but always be prepared!

If you take the hour or so it takes to complete the backup proccess, you will avoid the following scenarios:

1. Paying money if there is a problem with your PC’s software that causes it to freeze or crash. You can just go back to a ‘restore point’.

2. Paying money to remove virus’s. Hey, you have a backup. Just use the recovery DVD to wipe the computer and reload it with an uninfected copy from that backup you made two days ago.

3. Your computer or hard drive fails. Hey, you have a backup. When your machine is repaired, restore from backup and you’ve lost nothing.

4. Someone comes and messes up your computer. Say, your ‘computer genius nephew’. Restore to a previous day, and it’s as if he had never come over!

5. Random freezes and blue screens. Restore to FACTORY DEFAULT – if you create a system image when you first started the computer or near that time, you can restore to that point using the DVD’s rather then the external hard drive. If the blue screens and freezes continue, it’s much more likely to be a hardware problem then a software problem, which means you should bring it into the nearest Best Buy for a hardware diagnosis and possible warranty repair.

The most important reason for spending this time to back up is PEACE OF MIND.

Still confused? Call 1-800-GEEK-SQUAD.

(Remember, this is not an offical Best Buy message, it is only my opinion)

February 18, 2015

Overview

To recover from some unexpected situations such as human error, disk failure, or corruption of file systems, you will need a good backup plan. Selecting the right backup solution for your personal needs can be very subjective. Below you will find a short-list of approaches, feel free to review these and/or search the internet for a perfect solution for your need.

Feel free to make additional solution suggestions or raise questions in the forums, or on Live Chat (Discord) with regards to selecting, installing, and/or configuring your favored backup solution.

Backup Solutions

Rsync

Summary

A command-line backup tool popular among Linux users. Its feature-rich covering incremental backups, update whole directory tree and file system, both local and remote backups, preserves file permissions, ownership, links, and many more.

Bacula

Summary

Bacula is a set of computer programs that permits you (or the system administrator) to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds. Bacula can also run entirely upon a single computer, and can backup to various types of media, including tape and disk.

Timeshift

Summary

Timeshift for Linux is an application that provides functionality similar to the System Restore feature in Windows and the Time Machine tool in Mac OS. Timeshift protects your system by taking incremental snapshots of the file system at regular intervals. These snapshots can be restored at a later date to undo all changes to the system.

Timeshift is designed to protect system files and settings. It is NOT a backup tool and is not meant to protect user data. Entire contents of users’ home directories are excluded by default.

kgash

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• Feb 5, 2014

I have been using Windows Backup and Restore in Windows 7 for over three years. I create an image of C: each night and also do a file backup of D: each night. This process is automated and has worked flawlessly for me. I do not want to change to another backup system. Yesterday, when I checked my backup, I saw an error message:

Check your backup/ Invalid window handle, / Error Code: 0x80070578

Upon analysis, I found that the Image backup worked just fine. The File backup stopped exactly at 25% complete.

I tried changing the backup destination to a different external drive. I tried running the backup as a different user. I tried significantly reducing the number of files to be backed up. I tried using msconfig.exe to boot into Selective Startup mode. I ran sfc/scannow. I ran chkdsk. None of these helped.

I also did a somewhat extensive search of Google. I found a number of queries about the same problem but no real answers. The Microsoft help responses didn’t even seem to recognize the problem and provided canned answers to “similar” problems with different error codes.

I realize that I have numerous alternatives and have already temporarily implemented EASUS TODO for file backup. What I am looking for is an explanation of this cryptic error message and some information leading to a solution.

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How to Prevent Windows 10 From Automatically Downloading Updates

How to Prevent Windows 10 From Automatically Downloading Updates

Post by Watcher » Wed Aug 05, 2015 8:47 pm

Good information on ” How-to Geek “

Windows 10 PCs automatically check for updates and install any updates they find. You can take some control over this and have Windows 10 install updates on your schedule, but these options are hidden. Windows Update really wants to automatically update on Windows 10.

Professional, Enterprise, and Education editions of Windows 10 have access to group policy and registry settings for this, but even Home editions of Windows 10 give you a way to stop updates from automatically downloading.

How to Prevent Windows 10 From Automatically Downloading Updates

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Re: How to Prevent Windows 10 From Automatically Downloading Updates

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Re: How to Prevent Windows 10 From Automatically Downloading Updates

Post by ChrisGo » Mon Jun 11, 2018 9:30 am

Re: How to Prevent Windows 10 From Automatically Downloading Updates

Post by alik2039 » Wed Mar 27, 2019 5:28 pm

How to stop the Windows 10 update service

1. Start Windows services by pressing the Windows key + R. After launching the “Run” window, enter “services.msc” in the field and select “OK”.
2. When the Services window opens, locate and select Windows Update, then click the Stop Services / Stop icon to stop the service.
3. After stopping the service, right-click “Windows Update” and select “Properties.”
4. In the “Properties” window, select the “Startup type” drop-down menu, then select “Disabled”. Select “Apply”, then select “OK”.
5. Exit the “Services” window and enjoy your Windows 10 device without updates.

Disable automatic updating using Windows 10 update settings.

1. Open the “Start” menu and start “Windows Update” through the search.
2. Select “Advanced Options.”
3. To pause updates, set the “Suspend Updates” switch to the “On” position, and updates will be suspended.
Note: this option disables updates only temporarily for 35 days. You need to turn the update pause off and on again so that the account starts anew.
4. Move the updates instead, select the desired “Service Channel Update Window” from the first drop-down menu, and then set how long you want to postpone the update of features and quality updates.
Note: Feature updates may be delayed for up to 365 days, while quality updates may be delayed for up to 30 days.
5. Enjoy a Windows 10 device with temporarily disabled automatic updates. To undo the changes, go to the “Windows Update” settings and make sure that the grace days are set to 0 and the service channel is set to Semi-Annual Channel (Target).

Wake Computer For Backup

I use the MSP edition, and I normally set computers to stay awake. On my own office desktop I was wondering if there is any way to wake up Windows 10 for the backup and other CBB tasks to run. I know the Windows task scheduler has options for waking the computer, but I don’t think CBB jobs are in there.

Here also. For my understanding the mentioned option only prevents for sleeping during a jobrun but don’t wake the machine for jobexecution.

Also an option for prevent a User for shutdown during a jobrun is realy needed.

I thought I replied to this. Definitely not hibernation. If this was a customer’s computer I’d just set it not to sleep. However, we like to test on ourselves 😉

I ended up just making a scheduled task that runs before the backup. The tasks wakes the computer by running “cmd /c”. Works like a charm.
I think I followed this for anyone else interested:

Understand yours to be ‘sleep’ – I read in the Cloudberry Backup FAQ that the back will not run when the machine is asleep, as my home computer is want to be doing at 3am. So at present the only solution is to use the Windows 10 task scheduler to wake up the PC to ‘do something’ when the backup is due (and of course have the backup set to run as soon as the machine is awake).

It would be nice if Cloudberry Backup could wake up the machine at a set time (the way Windows Update seems to do) and run its backup at the scheduled time, so us users don’t have to know/remember to keep two separate things in sync (the backup job schedule, and the windows task scheduler wake up command). Even better if one could have Cloudberry wake up the Win10 PC to do the backup and then put it back to sleep immediately following, though the normal sleep settings would eventually kick in and put the machine to sleep.

Well, this is still a problem. I don’t use my desktop at home much – it dutifully goes to sleep after an hour of non-use. Thats fine.
But as others have stated, the scheduled 3am backup service job doesn’t run (computer asleep) and only kicks off when I next power up the machine. This means there are 2 problems:
1) Nothing from my current days computer work will get backed up (as that the computer is asleep by 3am the next morning when its scheduled to run)
and
2) When I DO use the computer the next time, then backup is running and using the very limited upload bandwidth as well as disk/cpu activity, while I’m in need of the computer.

I’ve tried the approach found elsewhere on the internet to schedule a simple do-nothing task to wake up the computer – hoping that when that causes the machine to wake up the backup service will kick off – but so far unsuccessfully. Will have dig further into why that isn’t succeeding.

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404 means the file is not found. If you have already uploaded the file then the name may be misspelled or it is in a different folder.

Other Possible Causes

You may get a 404 error for images because you have Hot Link Protection turned on and the domain is not on the list of authorized domains.

If you go to your temporary url (

username/) and get this error, there maybe a problem with the rule set stored in an .htaccess file. You can try renaming that file to .htaccess-backup and refreshing the site to see if that resolves the issue.

It is also possible that you have inadvertently deleted your document root or the your account may need to be recreated. Either way, please contact your web host immediately.

Are you using WordPress? See the Section on 404 errors after clicking a link in WordPress.

How to find the correct spelling and folder

Missing or Broken Files

When you get a 404 error be sure to check the URL that you are attempting to use in your browser.This tells the server what resource it should attempt to request.

In this example the file must be in public_html/example/Example/

Notice that the CaSe is important in this example. On platforms that enforce case-sensitivity example and Example are not the same locations.

For addon domains, the file must be in public_html/ and the names are case-sensitive.

Broken Image

When you have a missing image on your site you may see a box on your page with with a red X where the image is missing. Right click on the X and choose Properties. The properties will tell you the path and file name that cannot be found.

This varies by browser, if you do not see a box on your page with a red X try right clicking on the page, then select View Page Info, and goto the Media Tab.

In this example the image file must be in public_html/cgi-sys/images/

Notice that the CaSe is important in this example. On platforms that enforce case-sensitivity PNG and png are not the same locations.

404 Errors After Clicking WordPress Links

When working with WordPress, 404 Page Not Found errors can often occur when a new theme has been activated or when the rewrite rules in the .htaccess file have been altered.

When you encounter a 404 error in WordPress, you have two options for correcting it.

Option 1: Correct the Permalinks

1. Log in to WordPress.
2. From the left-hand navigation menu in WordPress, click Settings >Permalinks (Note the current setting. If you are using a custom structure, copy or save the custom structure somewhere.)
3. Select Default.
4. Click Save Settings.
5. Change the settings back to the previous configuration (before you selected Default). Put the custom structure back if you had one.
6. Click Save Settings.

This will reset the permalinks and fix the issue in many cases. If this doesn’t work, you may need to edit your .htaccess file directly.

Option 2: Modify the .htaccess File

Add the following snippet of code to the top of your .htaccess file:

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond % !-f
RewriteCond % !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# End WordPress

If your blog is showing the wrong domain name in links, redirecting to another site, or is missing images and style, these are all usually related to the same problem: you have the wrong domain name configured in your WordPress blog.

How to modify your .htaccess file

The .htaccess file contains directives (instructions) that tell the server how to behave in certain scenarios and directly affect how your website functions.

Redirects and rewriting URLs are two very common directives found in a .htaccess file, and many scripts such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and Magento add directives to the .htaccess so those scripts can function.

It is possible that you may need to edit the .htaccess file at some point, for various reasons.This section covers how to edit the file in cPanel, but not what may need to be changed.(You may need to consult other articles and resources for that information.)

There are Many Ways to Edit a .htaccess File

• Edit the file on your computer and upload it to the server via FTP
• Use an FTP program’s Edit Mode
• Use SSH and a text editor
• Use the File Manager in cPanel

The easiest way to edit a .htaccess file for most people is through the File Manager in cPanel.

How to Edit .htaccess files in cPanel’s File Manager

Before you do anything, it is suggested that you backup your website so that you can revert back to a previous version if something goes wrong.