Searching for "backup" or "file history" will bring you to the Windows 8 File History feature from there you can get to the old System Image tool. Searching the operating system for "System Image" turns up zero results. The System Image functionality seems hidden at first, and it will likely go unnoticed by the majority of Windows 8 users.
The ability to clone and restore your whole PC, files, settings, and applications-by creating a System Image-is gone, or seemingly gone. One problem is neither File History nor the Metro restore feature are complete backup tools. This was a useful tool that let users revert to previous versions of files without needing to connect an external drive, and now it's gone. As Peter Bright explained in an article last summer, File History's arrival was paired with the exit of Shadow Copies. Called File History, it lets you automatically back up files to a network drive or cable-connected external hard drive every 10 minutes. There's also a new backup tool on the desktop side of things, but this has its limits too. Beyond Metro, all you get is a file on your desktop listing the applications you've lost.
This has limitations-your desktop applications, anything that wasn't downloaded from the Windows Store, are wiped when performing the most easily accessible type of restore in Windows 8. That means when you restore your PC, all of the Metro stuff comes back exactly the way you remember it. Your settings and apps in the new tablet-y interface (yeah, we're still calling it Metro) are automatically backed up if you use a Microsoft account. When it comes to backing up and restoring your PC, Windows 8 took a few steps forward and a few steps back.
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