Backup and Restore

Backup and Restore is a component of Microsoft Windows. It is the primary file recovery tool of Windows Vista and Windows 7.

It can create file and folder backups, as well as system image backups that can be used for recovery in the event of data corruption, hard disk drive failure, or malware infection.

It replaced the legacy NTBackup tool that was present from Windows NT 3.51 to Windows XP and unlike its predecessor, it supports using CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs as backup media.

Backup and Restore was deprecated in Windows 8 in favor of File History and was removed completely in Windows 8.1. However, it is still present in later versions of Windows to provide compatibility for backups that were made on the legacy tool.

The server counterpart of Backup and Restore is called Windows Server Backup.