Go to Control Panel , then click User to summon the next window. Step 2. Specify options on the user information page, including Name, Description , Email , Send a notification mail to the newly created user , disallow the user to change account password. Step 4. Step 5. Step 7. Specify which services your newly created user can access the Assign application permissions page. Click Start menu and type Backup and Restore in the search box, then select it from the start menu list. Select Set up backup or Change setting on the backup and restore page.
Select Save on a network button and click Next , then type the IP address of your Synology NAS and select the shared folder you created to save your file backup. At last, click OK to finish this step. Click More options to configure other settings.
After that, click Back up now. Want an easier way, you can turn to a third-party backup software. Let's see the steps specifically. Back to the main page, click Schedule and OK to enable daily incremental backup. Took care of back up and security and allowed me to keep an eye on all my computers. This should have been integrated into W7 out of the box for Home Premium. That alone would have made the upgrade worth it.
Now I am very ticked off. I have ordered a devise that will create a node on my home network to which I can attach 2 HD. Does anyone know if that too along with the money spent on W7 and money lost on OneCare is further money down the rat hole? I agree with all the others that the changes to Vista were not worth the money and the knee - capping of Home Premium is highly reprehensible. The problem here has to do with the average comsumer purchasing cheap computers from Brandsmart or Walmart or any other reatil outlet to be used on a business environment.
They come pre loaded with Home premium Edition of 7. I did not used Vista much, but reading the forum I realized the missing feature of Windows 7 Premium to backup to a network drive and it is disappointing indeed. I have been recommending Windows 7 to some of my costumers, but i have to add that version to buy would be Ultimate if the pcs are going used in a business settings.
Im still a Microsoft guy, They certainly missed the bus on this one. This is a crappy solution. There nothing like networking your machines adding an external hard drive for backup and be able to see your external backup device on the network and bingo backup your machine files and folders to your external backup unit.
We need simple solutions. The average consumer does not know much about computers to start with. Let alone explaning how to add a virtual hard drive which nothing more than shared folder. This is crapy solution for the average consumer who don't know much about computers.
They want have the ability to network their machines, workgroup , hook up an external drive, share it on the network, view it on the network, and able to simple backup to it.
Youre just like every customer i meet, complaint about something then when a solution is presented its too complex or in your case its crappy. In addition to the above method there are also many 3rd party programs you can use to backup to a network - use Google, they are easy to find and some are free.
I think you are totally and completely wrong!! Simply beacuse you think you have the ability or the some knowledge of computers others should have it too. Not all things are created equal. Let alone the ability to create networks and work with devices that are totally strange to them.
A simple experience right out of box, not having to do a computer course on features and what version of Windows does what. This is where Microsoft missed the boat. The beauty of Windows XP; that ability to perform network functions without sacrifing you pocket or your brain for that matter; even with Xp Home Edition you have ability to add network functionality, only available on the professional version, and integrate them at the workgroup level at the very least.
Making the whole computing experience simpler, easier, linear, and plain is what most people are looking for, not having to buy 2 machines only to find out that in order to access something outside the machine you have to spend additional money and resources,. Install Home Server add the connector blah, blah blah. This not what most people want or expect. There is a potential workaround to this rather egregious, imho exclusion that I didn't see mentioned here: iSCSI.
With a little bit of Googling for some free iSCSI target server software and maybe minutes of setup time, depending on your proficiency, you CAN do network backups in Windows 7 home by convincing Windows that the networked drive is actually local. It does still require some third party software, but only server side.
The stock Windows 7 backup and restore functionality will work just fine with the iSCSI target once it's configured. I found this to be a rather more elegant solution than using third party backup software. Boss at BP bought a new Mac, gloated about it to folk, bought a scanner from Wal-Mart, threatened to FIRE me when I told him he bought the wrong thing, that NeatWorks makes a Mac specific model, didn't get fired, he had to go buy another scanner. Dude people seriously, this isn't such a big deal as you make it out to be.
Use comodo, its free and it works. It has more options than Windows backup. Yes it works over network and unlike the Windows version you change how much traffic it eats up AND pause a full backup. I tried Windows 7 backup on ultimate and it freezes without telling you. Microsoft does do stupid things, but its not responsible when you know this and let these things get to you.
Like someone said on this board you'll run into more troubles. I don't like them because they charge through the nose. Best buy had different brands a week or two ago and they were cheaper. Already did it. All in the last 16 months The reason that the network backup feature is absent from Win 7 Home Prof. It only told me I would lose a couple of minor features that I did not care about. I found out a week later when the automatic backup kicked in and failed.
I'm a staunch MS supporter, but I'm just about to join those that spell the company name with a dollar sign. I was all ready to use my trusty ntbackup. First I get slapped with "Performing a backup to a remote shared folder is not supported by this edition of Windows.
Umm, no - pass-thru authentication still works just fine so domain support is not a precursor to network backups. I have found a workaround to backing up Windows 7 Home Premium on a second home computer by a copy-paste method. Chances are that the second computer is not Windows 7 and therefore cannot be part of Windows 7 Homegroup. In my case it is Windows XP. So here are the steps:. Change the Workgroup name of one of the computers to that of the other.
The computer will reboot to effect the change. The sharing tab is located in the Drive Properties window.
To do this:. On the Left pane click the link "Change advanced sharing settings". Expand the Public profile by the drop-down button and select the options: Turn on Network discovery and File and printer sharing. It takes about a minute for the two computers to establish a connection.
Once the connection is established, the connection map at the top will show "Unidentified network". The mapping process does not require a Password Authentication. Not even the IP address jugglery we did in the past to connect two XP machines. The Shadow files are not copied. This should not be a critical problem, as only the latest backup is copied. The Shadows files contains earlier backup points relative to the current backup.
In a crashed computer, the network storage location of the backup file may not be readily accessable for restoration. Yes, And microsoft is also so soft to not include this problem in their "KB" to make sure that as much as possible people are left in the dark for as much time as possible.
Untile it is googled under "w7 back up does not connect to network drives". It is save for them to proudly announce that this will not get fixed as almost nobody will read it! I bought McAfee back up and guess what?? It also can't connect to the network drive just the same! And that just in the age where almost everybody has a homenetwork running, unbelievable. This is absolute real crap! Thanks for so much ignorance!
Abd after all.. What the game for MS in this? As if they ever give help or support in any field for home users. I realize this is an old post, but still a relevant topic. My VHD is set to automatically expand as needed which I realize will eventually overrun the network storage, but I can always manage backups manually.
After plugging through the first 50 or so responses in this 2 year old post I was about to attempt what you have suggested here starting with drive mapping. I'm glad this has worked for you. Your post has eliminated some of the experimentation I would have gone through. Thank you for keeping your post succinct, helpful and opinion free. There's a vast segment of the web community consisting of folks like myself who come to these forums for solutions.
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Sign in to vote. I see, to my great annoyance, W7 Home Premium 64 has lost the capability to backup to a network drive which Vista 64 Home Premium had. Is it likely that this decision will be changed by MS. If I have to find an aftermarket backup utility for W7 I will but I'd rather not.
Tuesday, October 27, PM. Wednesday, October 28, AM. Unlikely to change in the near future, if you like that feature I'd look for a program that can. You could also do an Anytime Upgrade to Professional. I too just found this out and I find it appalling. I had this capability in Vista, and just lost it when I paid for and applied the "upgrade" to Windows 7. That will teach me not to upgrade a Microsoft product without carefully reading the fine print.
I am amazed that the response is a choice of 1 buy a product from someone else, or 2 pay even more money to Microsoft. I will probably avoid being an early adopter in the future. This is not helping me maintain my goodwill towards Microsoft. Maybe the Apple advertisement campaign could use this. The isn't even the remotest glint of a possibility that the 'decision' would be changed. The feature set of the various 'versions' of Windows 7 have been cast in concrete since the 'Release Candidate' build, final code has been out for quite a number of months, and the product is now in general availability distribution.
Changing the 'feature set' now is an impossibility. The time for that has long ago passed, I'm afraid. You will definitely need to source a third-party backup tool in order to have the capability of backup to network storage, or else purchase an 'upgrade' to a Windows 7 version which includes the capability. Here you have already do the job for backup to NAS. However, NAS auto backup needs one more step, that is click Schedule on the bottom of this picture to open the schedule backup setting window.
It will show you a window for setting NAS automatic backup in daily, weekly, monthly or event triggers in professional version , and you can choose the time to run it. Step 5. After all the settings, click Start Backup to launch the progress. Besides backup to NAS, AOMEI Backupper has many other utilities for you to keep data safe, and it can do many other things to make you feel more flexible, for example, you can automatically backup files with a certain file extension , transfer OS from one computer to another computer, and many others.
How to automatic backup to NAS? The steps for automatic backup to NAS Step 1.
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