{"id":1033,"date":"2017-06-05T20:48:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T19:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2017-06-25T19:32:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T18:32:09","slug":"how-to-view-the-status-of-a-windows-10-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/how-to-view-the-status-of-a-windows-10-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"How to view the status of a Windows 10 backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some really inexplicable reason, there is no progress bar when doing a backup using the built-in backup feature in Windows 10. This is really annoying for me, since I do the backup to a NAS that I normally do not have turned on and I therefore need to know when I can turn it off. I also need to know when it is safe to turn off the computer running the backup.<\/p>\n<p>There is a non-obvious trick however.<\/p>\n<p>In the backup settings, click on &#8220;Go to backup and Restore (Windows 7)&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Backup1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1034\" src=\"http:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Backup1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Backup1.png 960w, https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Backup1-300x239.png 300w, https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Backup1-768x613.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This brings up a window where there is a progress bar showing the progress of the current backup (if any):<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1037\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1037\" style=\"width: 868px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Backup2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1037\" src=\"http:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Backup2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"868\" height=\"761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Backup2.png 868w, https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Backup2-300x263.png 300w, https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Backup2-768x673.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 868px) 100vw, 868px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1037\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Backup status window<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some really inexplicable reason, there is no progress bar when doing a backup using the built-in backup feature in Windows 10. This is really annoying for me, since I do the backup to a NAS that I normally do not have turned on and I therefore need to know when I can turn it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/how-to-view-the-status-of-a-windows-10-backup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to view the status of a Windows 10 backup<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}