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Seagate "One Touch" External Drive: Other Backup Software Support?
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| frank 2004-05-23, 12:14 pm |
| Hi,
I have a Seagate 160GByte external drive, the one with the 'pushbutton'
backup feature. The drive is packaged with a lite version of BounceBack.
Pushing a button on the front of the drive invokes BounceBack and begins
the backup process. Furthermore, BouncBack communicates with the drive: a
red-light on the drive flases during backup.
Are there other types of backup software that will respond to the backup
button on the drive, and also light the drive 'backup in progress' light on
the drive, or an I stuck with BounceBack?
Thanks,
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| (Pete Cresswell) 2004-05-23, 12:14 pm |
| RE/
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Some other one-touch drives come with Retrospect.
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PeteCresswell
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| Howard Kaikow 2004-05-23, 12:14 pm |
| IMHO, the one-touch feature is not useful unless it allows one to create the
script to be used.
At least that's what I think of that feature on Maxtor's 5000LE USB drive.
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http://www.standards.com/; See Howard Kaikow's web site.
"frank" <hfk@cox.net> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a Seagate 160GByte external drive, the one with the 'pushbutton'
> backup feature. The drive is packaged with a lite version of BounceBack.
> Pushing a button on the front of the drive invokes BounceBack and begins
> the backup process. Furthermore, BouncBack communicates with the drive: a
> red-light on the drive flases during backup.
>
> Are there other types of backup software that will respond to the backup
> button on the drive, and also light the drive 'backup in progress' light
on
> the drive, or an I stuck with BounceBack?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> hfk
> hfk_list@--REMOVE-THIS--cox.net
> MS Messenger ID: hfk_anon@--REMOVE-THIS--cox.net
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| (Pete Cresswell) 2004-05-23, 12:14 pm |
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>At least that's what I think of that feature on Maxtor's 5000LE USB drive.
First thing I do after buying a one-touch drive is format it...and then rely on
Retrospect scripts to do my backups.
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PeteCresswell
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| Howard Kaikow 2004-05-23, 12:14 pm |
| I use my own scripts from the Run menu in Retrospect.
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http://www.standards.com/; See Howard Kaikow's web site.
"(Pete Cresswell)" <x@y.z> wrote in message
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> First thing I do after buying a one-touch drive is format it...and then
rely on
> Retrospect scripts to do my backups.
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> PeteCresswell
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| (Pete Cresswell) 2004-05-23, 12:14 pm |
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>I use my own scripts from the Run menu in Retrospect.
Same here - saved as .rrr "shortcuts" which, I guess if I took the time to
figure out how, could be scheduled via Windows' scheduler.
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PeteCresswell
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| Howard Kaikow 2004-05-23, 12:14 pm |
| Don't believe in scheduler.
Now that I back up to hard drives, I often run a Normal backup more than
once per day, e.g., when I run out to do errands, or am eating a meal, or
watching the idiot box. Lot more convenient than tape.
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http://www.standards.com/; See Howard Kaikow's web site.
"(Pete Cresswell)" <x@y.z> wrote in message
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> RE/
>
> Same here - saved as .rrr "shortcuts" which, I guess if I took the time to
> figure out how, could be scheduled via Windows' scheduler.
> --
> PeteCresswell
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