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Newbie: recommendation for >2Gb Backup
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| Alexander Kluge 2004-05-23, 12:15 pm |
| Hello!
Although this group is aimed at "professionals discussing backup
software", I would like to profit from your knowledge.
Presently, I backup to rarely (once several weeks) actual work on an
external Firewire HD. I use Backup4all, which was cheap and is easy to
use. Its main drawback is the 2Gb limit of created Zip-Archives. Thus, I
have to backup every one of 20 (sub)folders separately.
My question: is there a cheap/free solution for winXP to create full,
incremental or differential backup that produces (compressed) files
readable outside of the program (as with zip files) regardless of the
drive size to be backed up?
Thanks
Alexander
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| Toshi1873 2004-05-23, 12:15 pm |
| In article <c5s3te$58a6v$1@ID-4362.news.uni-berlin.de>,
alexander.kluge@radiol.med.uni-giessen.de says...
> Hello!
> Although this group is aimed at "professionals discussing backup
> software", I would like to profit from your knowledge.
>
> Presently, I backup to rarely (once several weeks) actual work on an
> external Firewire HD. I use Backup4all, which was cheap and is easy to
> use. Its main drawback is the 2Gb limit of created Zip-Archives. Thus, I
> have to backup every one of 20 (sub)folders separately.
>
> My question: is there a cheap/free solution for winXP to create full,
> incremental or differential backup that produces (compressed) files
> readable outside of the program (as with zip files) regardless of the
> drive size to be backed up?
>
I use Second Copy 2000, but not with ZIP files.
Instead, I just turn the compressed flag on in NTFS for
the backup folders. SC200 also has the advantage that
it will copy changed/deleted files to a 2nd folder (and
you can specify how many revisions to keep). Runs in
the system tray, priority is configurable.
Example: Backing up C:\Dev folder.
Create F:\Dev\Active and F:\Dev\Trash on the external
drive. Set SC2000 to backup to the F:\Dev\Active tree,
and then set it to keep deleted files in the F:\Dev
\Trash tree. The active tree will be an exact mirror of
whatever is in C:\Dev.
I run my backups daily, usually in the early morning
hours. Since SC2000 only copies changed files, it only
takes a few minutes to do the delta. We use it on all
of the laptops at the office with external USB drives,
as well as on our developer workstations. (Hell, I even
use it as a down-n-dirty secondary backup method for
everything on the main file server in addition to the
daily tape backup. Quicker to pull a deleted file off
of the mirror folder then to load up yesterday's backup
tapes.)
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