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| sean_acoustic@hotmail.com 2005-12-14, 7:46 am |
| On our business's peer to peer network we use ntbackup.exe to do daily,
incremental and full backups. I recently moved all storage to a Buffalo
LinkStation NAS device. Unfortunately this device does not support the
Windows file archive bit and so our backup procedure is broken as
ntbackup.exe depends on it.
Can anyone recommed software similar to ntbackup.exe whoich does not
depend on the Windows archive bit. i.e. instead of backing up
everything with the archive bit set it would backup everythinh modified
since a certain date.
Regards
Sean
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| Hi Sean,
We use AutoSave by V-Communications (recently purchased by Avanquest) to
back up our PCs to a Buffalo LinkStation. See
http://www.v-com.com/product/AutoSave_Home.html.
AutoSave runs in the background and backs up every new or modified file
shortly after it is created or changed. We have it set to keep 5 revisions
of every file before overwriting the first revision. It saves in native file
format, so we can use Windows Explorer to retrieve files if we want to, or
use AutoSave's Restore function. We have never had a problem using AutoSave.
I have also considered Second Copy (see http://www.secondcopy.com/), and NTI
Shadow, recently mentioned in this forum. NTI Shadow is on sale now for
$0.99 so it would be cheap to try. See
https://secure.ntius.com/esdsoft/nt...3&uid=507730115
for the $0.99 sale. My Mac colleague is testing NTI Shadow right now on his
Mac, and so far it has not been as easy for him as AutoSave has been for me.
As far as using the Windows archive bit as NTBackup does, I do not know how
these three softwares handle that. AutoSave just monitors our work and saves
everything. (Note you can select the files/folders you want monitored. We do
not have it save the system or program files, etc.)
I like AutoSave on my laptop because when I am not connected to the
peer-to-peer network it logs my work and backs it up the next time I
connect.
Regards,
Gene
<sean_acoustic@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On our business's peer to peer network we use ntbackup.exe to do daily,
> incremental and full backups. I recently moved all storage to a Buffalo
> LinkStation NAS device. Unfortunately this device does not support the
> Windows file archive bit and so our backup procedure is broken as
> ntbackup.exe depends on it.
> Can anyone recommed software similar to ntbackup.exe whoich does not
> depend on the Windows archive bit. i.e. instead of backing up
> everything with the archive bit set it would backup everythinh modified
> since a certain date.
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> Sean
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