Issues with Backup and Restore Center in Vista Professional

I am a relatively experienced user with Windows.

I have two issues with this product:

1) Is there any way to do a selective backup? It appears you can only
backup selected full disks.

2) I receive errors "File backup failed. The error is: The process cannot
access the file because it is being used by another process. (0x80070020)."

There doesn't seem to be any information regarding which file this is. I
searched on "Backup Log" but there were no hits. The Backup and Restore
center has no "View Log" and to me it is severely brain damaged if it can't
tell me which file it cannot access. There are also no hits on MS site
regarding what this message means and what file it is referring to.

--
Eric Levinson

1. Are you talking about backing up files or trying to do a Full System
Backup?
2. What do you mean by "selected full disks"?
3. What is your backup destination; e.g. is it an external hard drive, is
it CD'S, etc.?

"Eric" <Eric@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A37C8CF8-B522-4376-A911-6F94E37C0B0C@microsoft.com...
>I am a relatively experienced user with Windows.
>
> I have two issues with this product:
>
> 1) Is there any way to do a selective backup? It appears you can only
> backup selected full disks.
>
> 2) I receive errors "File backup failed. The error is: The process cannot
> access the file because it is being used by another process.
> (0x80070020)."
>
> There doesn't seem to be any information regarding which file this is. I
> searched on "Backup Log" but there were no hits. The Backup and Restore
> center has no "View Log" and to me it is severely brain damaged if it
> can't
> tell me which file it cannot access. There are also no hits on MS site
> regarding what this message means and what file it is referring to.
>
> --
> Eric Levinson
>

Hi John, thanks for your question.

1. Either or. I should be able to see a tree view of all my fixed disks and
select which folders I want backed up. I see just disk drives and I cannot
select or deselect any files or folders in them.

2) You can choose either to back up D: or not to backup D:. I can't tell it
to only backup D:\Data (as an example, if all my data was in a directory
Data on the D Drive, unless I am missing an option somewhere, but I looked in
the help files and nothing about selective backups.


Backup destinations are fixed USB disks.

--
Eric Levinson



"John Hanley" wrote:

> 1. Are you talking about backing up files or trying to do a Full System
> Backup?
> 2. What do you mean by "selected full disks"?
> 3. What is your backup destination; e.g. is it an external hard drive, is
> it CD'S, etc.?
>
> "Eric" <Eric@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A37C8CF8-B522-4376-A911-6F94E37C0B0C@microsoft.com...
> >I am a relatively experienced user with Windows.
> >
> > I have two issues with this product:
> >
> > 1) Is there any way to do a selective backup? It appears you can only
> > backup selected full disks.
> >
> > 2) I receive errors "File backup failed. The error is: The process cannot
> > access the file because it is being used by another process.
> > (0x80070020)."
> >
> > There doesn't seem to be any information regarding which file this is. I
> > searched on "Backup Log" but there were no hits. The Backup and Restore
> > center has no "View Log" and to me it is severely brain damaged if it
> > can't
> > tell me which file it cannot access. There are also no hits on MS site
> > regarding what this message means and what file it is referring to.
> >
> > --
> > Eric Levinson
> >
>
>

To expound on john's reply - "Complete backup" e.g. full backup does not
provide for folder or ffile seletion - only the drive- the backup is
created as a "VHD" - virtual hard drive which can be "mounted" and
Individual folder/files restored.

File backups are in "ZIP" format and can be opened by any of the zip
utilites such as WinZip - in addition to the normal restore option.


"Eric" <Eric@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:22A8EF62-7365-433B-BA8F-2B1CE0E88184@microsoft.com...
> Hi John, thanks for your question.
>
> 1. Either or. I should be able to see a tree view of all my fixed disks
> and
> select which folders I want backed up. I see just disk drives and I
> cannot
> select or deselect any files or folders in them.
>
> 2) You can choose either to back up D: or not to backup D:. I can't tell
> it
> to only backup D:\Data (as an example, if all my data was in a directory
> Data on the D Drive, unless I am missing an option somewhere, but I looked
> in
> the help files and nothing about selective backups.
>
>
> Backup destinations are fixed USB disks.
>
> --
> Eric Levinson
>
>
>
> "John Hanley" wrote:
>
>> 1. Are you talking about backing up files or trying to do a Full System
>> Backup?
>> 2. What do you mean by "selected full disks"?
>> 3. What is your backup destination; e.g. is it an external hard drive,
>> is
>> it CD'S, etc.?
>>
>> "Eric" <Eric@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:A37C8CF8-B522-4376-A911-6F94E37C0B0C@microsoft.com...
>> >I am a relatively experienced user with Windows.
>> >
>> > I have two issues with this product:
>> >
>> > 1) Is there any way to do a selective backup? It appears you can only
>> > backup selected full disks.
>> >
>> > 2) I receive errors "File backup failed. The error is: The process
>> > cannot
>> > access the file because it is being used by another process.
>> > (0x80070020)."
>> >
>> > There doesn't seem to be any information regarding which file this is.
>> > I
>> > searched on "Backup Log" but there were no hits. The Backup and
>> > Restore
>> > center has no "View Log" and to me it is severely brain damaged if it
>> > can't
>> > tell me which file it cannot access. There are also no hits on MS site
>> > regarding what this message means and what file it is referring to.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Eric Levinson
>> >
>>
>>