This produces a warning:
$ wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:I: -include:C: -quiet
This will back up DRIVENAME (C:) to I:.
Note:
The list of volumes included for backup does not include all the volumes that
contain operating system components. This backup cannot be used to perform a
system recovery. However, you can recover other items if the destination media
type supports it.
What is if for, then? What does this mean "...you can recover other items if the destination media type supports it"? That it's mountable? If so, how?
I do know the below is for a bare metal restore, so why does the first way exist, and how to actually use it?
wbadmin start backup -allcritical -backupTarget:D: -include:C: -quiet
wbadmin
for maintaining backups since it has little, if any, compression, relies upon external XML config files to make the VHD backups work, and has no parity to verify if corruption exists within backups. A more storage efficient, native solution is to capture WIMs, appending new backups to the base WIM, which has no external config files. Capturing boot and WinRE partitions aren't needed since they can both be recreated from WinPE, but can be captured in WIMs.