Tag: veeam
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Cloning or Restoring a drive also restores bad block list!
When you clone or restore a drive, for example when replacing an HDD with and SSD or doing a restore from a Veeam backup you also copy over the list of bad blocks from the old drive. Chkdsk will report no errors but Veeam (or other backup software might). To fix this run, chkdsk /b…
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[Fixed] Error Using Veeam Agent for Windows Free with a NAS
I have previously blogged about how to back-up home systems to commercial standards. A useful tool for the home user is Veeam Agent for Windows Free. It allows you to make a recovery disk and system image and has a very reliable restore feature. In the small office/home (SoHo) environment the back-up target will typically…
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[Fixed] Windows 10 roaming profiles break Edge and other packaged applications
— Update 2017-12-15 — I think Roaming Profiles are now deprecated. I will be moving all my users to Local Profiles supplemented by User Experience Virtualisation (UE-V) over the next 12 months. See comments below. — I have recently been imaging Microsoft Surface 3 computers for use by staff in a school. All our staff…
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How to restore a Surface image
Regular readers of this blog will know that I have recently published a definitive guide to backing up your home computer in which I say that home users should not rely on System Images for system backup because restoring them is so unreliable. This does not apply to corporate users who often purchase large numbers…
Dr James Bayley 