Hi
I am testing Comodo backup as a worst case scenario backup so I could restore files that are in obscure places.
I have taken a backup image of the system to a CBU, this stage was nice and easy, fantastic.
I then mounted it on the PC I took the image from and it worked great, lovely, quick access to files.
I then moved the backup to a different PC and then mounted the backup… looking fantastic, until I tried to access my User Profile to see My Documents, My Pictures, Fovorites, etc. As I clicked on my username it said it couldn;t continue due to security settings.
I tried to take ownership… I couldn’t
I set the mouted drive configuration to NOT read only and tried again, still security blocked me and it didn;t allow me to take ownership.
This causes a problem, How am I supposed to be able to restore files from my backup as the main restore I would ever want will usually be if my PC breaks and I need to re-install things, even if I have the same UserName it will still have a difference Security code, which will mean I won;t be able to access these files.
Before anyone says surely I’d restore my whole PC to as it was. Well here are 3 situations when this would easily not be the case.
- If my PC crashes so I need to re-install everything, it is far better (with time) to re-install the software and latest versions from scratch (a good clean up) to keep the PC optimised ( a very good excuse when PC breaks)
- The above might be planned, a good wipe of everything, a fresh install of windows and only the used applications (rather than installed and uninstalled apps (leaving rubbish behind))
- Upgrading the PC OS, if I was to go from Windows 7 to Windows 8 it would be far better to do a fresh install rather than an upgrade.
Even through the Restore option it seems to want to do a partition restore i.e. restore all of the C backup to a C restore, rather than being able to restore all files and folders to a sub folder.
Finally before anyone says then just do a file and folder backup - the whole reason of doing a Partition backup makes sure that mothing is missed. If you do a file and folder backup, you may miss a file you need saved in an obscure location (may be not by any intention of your own, how many of you ensure your custom.dic file is backed up on a file backup, or any files from badly written applications that save certain files in program files etc.,) the idea of the system backup being to make sure you have everything …
Maybe I’ve missed something but I;ve been looking at this for 3 hours now and can;t see how to gain access to that data without restoring the system of my laptop and overwritting the system of my desktop.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Tris