{"id":521,"date":"2021-09-03T20:01:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T20:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/windows-7-desktop-icon-to-create-and-store-a-backup-file-18571-html"},"modified":"2021-09-03T20:01:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T20:01:48","slug":"windows-7-desktop-icon-to-create-and-store-a-backup-file-18571-html","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-7\/desktop-icon-to-create-and-store-a-backup-file\/18571.html","title":{"rendered":"Solved Desktop icon to create and store a backup file"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><td>We are a small company with only a dozen computers.<br \/>All of our computers are Windows 7 professional.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to set up a backup system where the End User will see an icon on their desktop that when they click on it, it creates a system image file and stores it on an external hard drive connected to the wireless router.<\/p>\n<p>Please help me with setting up this system.<br \/>I don&#8217;t want just the typical Documents, Desktop and Favorites.  I know that Windows 7 can create an image file and so that&#8217;s what I want this desktop icon to do, is create an image file.<\/p>\n<p>I would like the system to store 2 or 3 copies of the backup before replacing the oldest one with the new one.<\/p>\n<p>I might want to automate it, where the backup runs once a week, but I definitely want to give the End User the control to click on an icon and run the back up, let&#8217;s say if they are leaving the office environment and going to the field for a week.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for any help.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":28},"question-category":[],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}