Re: Script for backing up Windows 11 host

Falko Trojahn via BackupPC-users <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:32:54 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.backuppc.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Dan,

Dan Johansson via BackupPC-users schrieb am 18.03.26 um 16:02:

> Some time ago, someone posted a script (or part thereof) for backing up 
> a Windows 11 host with BackupPC using native Windows tools.
> 
> I can not find the post/script among my emails ๐Ÿ™
> 
> Could someone please tell me where I can find those scripts?
> 

may be you mean this?


 > That's what I did more than five years ago, too - but we didn't use
 > samba client for Windows backups with BackupPC, but this:
 >
 > https://www.michaelstowe.com/backuppc/
 >
 > and I remember it working very well. Especially that it did
 > use shadow copies. I think we used Win10 these days.
 >
 > But later we switched to Urbackup client.
 >
 > If you don't have recent Windows versions at hand ...
 > Usually it is possible to get some Windows developer edition VMs.
 > Ah, we did use this: https://github.com/xdissent/ievms/
 >
 > Maybe some newer fixes are in the forks or pull requests like:
 > https://github.com/xdissent/ievms/pull/343
 >
 > Just my 2ยข
 > Falko

Link to the archive is here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/backuppc-users/?viewmonth=202509&viewday=28

Another thread about Win 11 Backup was here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/backuppc-users/thread/DM6PR20MB344338A189BF8697A04E4CC8DD242%40DM6PR20MB3443.namprd20.prod.outlook.com/#msg58747558

Best regards
Falko




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