How to set up a full Windows OS Backup with Duplicati 2.3

It is announced as feature, that Duplicati 2.3 provides a Windows full disk backup.

I wonder how to configure it. Is a How-To available?

Maybe it is even a misunderstanding on my end: Is a full physical disk backup (e.g. 2TB including numerous partitions) or - what I would be interested in - a backup of the OS Drive and hidden drive information, enabling us to restore the Windows system drive.

Thank you for enlightening me :slight_smile:

Interesting, I’ve not seen this “feature” announcement? :thinking: :thinking: :thinking:

I personally leverage Clonezilla as my favorite “partition and disk imaging/cloning program”.

No how-to just yet.

It works by clicking the “Add local disk” when picking the source:

(You need admin permissions to access the disk this way).

To restore, you need the target disk to be offline (i.e., boot into a live/recovery environment).

That is exactly what it is: full disk backup, including MBR, partition table, etc.

It is prominently mentioned as “Full Disk Backup”:

I think that is still the most prominent open-source solution, but IIRC, it requires that the disk is offline when you make a backup?

My bad, I just realized using a Linux OS, which doesn’t have similar features, I ignored “Windows” statements in such announcements and/or documentation because they didn’t apply to me. D’oh!

The truth is always in the details, regardless of bias…one can’t see what they won’t look at. :smirking_face: :smirking_face: :smirking_face:

Thank you @kenkendk,
then I have seen the option in the GUI. And I understand that the full disk incl. all partitions is backed up.

Basically I intended to only backup the operating system partition (C) + the necessary partitions and information to ensure a recover of this boot disk. And to ignore the other partitions on this drive. But anyhow - good to have this feature and I will give it a try! :slight_smile: Thank you for your quick, polite and well explanation.

Cheers