Windows 10 Image Backup Log Error Message

nolante · 13 May 2016

When I create a disc image file with windows 10, I now get a folder "Logs" with my backup that I did not get with Windows 7. In it is a Notepad text file titled "Backup_Error-xx-yy-zzzz_ aa-bb-cc", where xx, yy, and zzzz are the day, month, and year of the backup, and aa, bb, and cc are numeric values whose meaning I cannot identify. There is nothing in the text file when opened. What is this and what is it telling me? The image backup appears to successfully complete. This occurs on both of my Windows 10 computers.

dalchina · 13 May 2016

Hello, I can't find a way to find any reference to that. What I can tell you is that we generally recommend a 3rd party program for creating disk images, such as Macrium Reflect (free) + its boot medium - which offers some other useful facilities- and external storage.

These are
a. more flexible
b. more reliable (every so often people have problems with Win 10 system imaging)
c. far more feature rich
d. allow you to back up other partitions and offer differential/incremental imaging