I like the idea of shadow copy and multiple revisions of files, except, its unusable. Allow backups to resume after shutdown. There are a few options: - If user wants to shutdown, and initial backup is running, prompt the user if they would like to shut down immediately, or let windows shutdown after the initial backup automatically. 2) Secondly, if users currently shut-down at the moment, the initial backup starts all over again (without warning). Maybe also have a way to disable checksumming for fast and none, to reduce load further. Compression will help me get slightly more revisions, but without it, I could probably create backups more often). I suggest 3 modes: - Full Compression (the way its done currently) - Fast compression (Use NTFS compression, that's what its there for!) - None (People like myself have a large backup harddisk. To make Windows Backup usable by anyone: 1) At the least, users must be able to turn off compression, its too slow. Time machine also performs faster too (that doesn't archive files and uses hardlinks for various revisions). Its the zipping slowing everything down, not the incremental thing probably (Synctoy, a FREE tool provided by Microsoft in comparison takes 2 hours to copy all the files). I have 500GB of files, and Windows was taking 2 or 3 days to back them up (without a system image, just a directory).
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