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Backup Now software?
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| Ken Knecht 2005-07-29, 5:49 pm |
| About a year ago I bought an ap called Backup Now and used it on my XP
desktop. However, I never had to recover any files so I don't know how
reliable it is. I am adding an internal HD on a newer desktop and wish to
use it again. My plan is a file backup of the whole system to the added
HD, then daily incremental backups.
Any reason I should use other software?
Both machines are running XP Home.
TIA
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| Joe Rom King 2005-07-31, 7:46 am |
| How much data do you have in total?
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>About a year ago I bought an ap called Backup Now and used it on my XP
>desktop. However, I never had to recover any files so I don't know how
>reliable it is. I am adding an internal HD on a newer desktop and wish to
>use it again. My plan is a file backup of the whole system to the added >
>HD, then daily incremental backups.
>Any reason I should use other software?
>Both machines are running XP Home.
How much data do you have in total?
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Joe Rom King - http://www.datamills.com
Hassle Free Eternal Incremental Backup to Disk Software
Slashing backup time & space; minimizing attention.
Extending data restore-reach beyond days and weeks.
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| Ken Knecht 2005-07-31, 5:47 pm |
| Currently 5 - 6 G total, including software, on HD.
"Joe Rom King" <no@Spam.com> wrote in news:dciba9$iis$1
@news2.netvision.net.il:
> How much data do you have in total?
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| Kinoby 2005-08-02, 5:47 pm |
| I use Acronis backup solution and put in action such plan doing next:
with this program I created the secure zone on my HD, then created
image of the whole system with strong compression in this zone and
scheduled task "Append changes incrementally to the existing archive"
to be performed automatically every day with built-in scheduler.
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| Kinoby 2005-08-02, 5:47 pm |
| I have never used Backup Now, but I use Acronis backup solution
(http://www.acronis.com/homecomputin...ucts/trueimage/ ) and put in
action such plan doing next: with this program I created the secure
zone on my HD, then created image of the whole system with strong
compression in this zone and scheduled task "Append changes
incrementally to the existing archive" to be performed automatically
every day with built-in scheduler. And it works fine, i've had it for
a year now, and i'm satisfied cvompletely...
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| old jon 2005-08-02, 5:47 pm |
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"Kinoby" <dlyagugla@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1122990565.515483.200310@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>I use Acronis backup solution and put in action such plan doing next:
> with this program I created the secure zone on my HD, then created
> image of the whole system with strong compression in this zone and
> scheduled task "Append changes incrementally to the existing archive"
> to be performed automatically every day with built-in scheduler.
>
Hi Kinoby. Just a word of warning. You say you`ve made a secure zone on your
HD.
Sadly there`s no such thing. If your HD goes Kaput, you lose your system,
And your Backup. Always Backup to another drive\CD\DVD set.
best wishes..OJ
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| Kinoby 2005-08-03, 7:46 am |
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old jon wrote:
> "Kinoby" <dlyagugla@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1122990565.515483.200310@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi Kinoby. Just a word of warning. You say you`ve made a secure zone on your
> HD.
> Sadly there`s no such thing. If your HD goes Kaput, you lose your system,
> And your Backup. Always Backup to another drive\CD\DVD set.
> best wishes..OJ
I didn't say that I have two hard drivers. The System is based on one
of them and the secure zone on another...;-)
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| le_temp_de@yahoo.com 2005-08-03, 5:47 pm |
| > Hi Kinoby. Just a word of warning. You say you`ve made a secure zone on your
> HD.
> Sadly there`s no such thing. If your HD goes Kaput, you lose your system,
> And your Backup. Always Backup to another drive\CD\DVD set.
> best wishes..OJ
Hi, OJ. I use Acronis, create an exact image of my HDD and keep one
copy on HDD, and another on booable CD. This sofware allows it, so I
could recover my system any time. It doesn't metter what happen, as I
may do it automatically, without load windos.
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| Terry Collins 2005-08-08, 8:46 pm |
| Ken Knecht wrote:
> About a year ago I bought an ap called Backup Now and used it on my XP
> desktop. However, I never had to recover any files so I don't know how
> reliable it is. I am adding an internal HD on a newer desktop and wish to
> use it again. My plan is a file backup of the whole system to the added
> HD, then daily incremental backups.
>
> Any reason I should use other software?
Yes, if it isn't working.
I hope you are testing recover every week or month?
Create a dummy directory, put junk in it, back it up as normal, rename
the directory, now recover the old directory asnd compare with original.
Prepare to be shocked. I've lost track of the number of times I have
found that backup systems were either not actually backing up, or what
they were backing up was crapped and unrecoverable.
And another reason, does your software allow you to recover from a hard
disk massacare. Usually a boot floppy recover is best.
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