The backup is integrated with the Windows Recovery Environment (i.e., that mini-Windows environment you can boot into if you press the right key during bootup or boot from a system recovery disc).Some of the great parts about doing VSS-integrated System Image backups are:
Wbadmin start backup -allCritical -vssFull -quiet -backupTarget:G:\ By the way, for those on Windows 8.1 or 10 who no longer have the graphic user interface to the Windows Backup subsystem that Windows 7 provided, it’s STILL possible to do VSS-integrated System Image backups of your critical volumes (e.g., C:, your recovery partition)…įor example, on my Win 8.1 workstation I schedule the following command to run every night: