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Suggestion for back-up software please?
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| Ken Knecht 2005-08-15, 5:47 pm |
| I'm looking for back-up software for a desktop running XP Home. The backup
destination will be a second internal hard drive. Any suggestions?
TIA
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Untie the two knots to email me
"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent."
Jean Kerr
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| Howard Kaikow 2005-08-15, 5:47 pm |
| Backup really needs to be to an EXTERNAL drive.
A power glitch could wipe out an internal drive.
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http://www.standards.com/; See Howard Kaikow's web site.
"Ken Knecht" <kenkknot@deruknot.com> wrote in message
news:Xns96B34E2FBBFC6kenkderucom@140.99.23.22...
> I'm looking for back-up software for a desktop running XP Home. The backup
> destination will be a second internal hard drive. Any suggestions?
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> TIA
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> --
> Untie the two knots to email me
>
> "Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent."
> Jean Kerr
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| old jon 2005-08-15, 5:47 pm |
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"Ken Knecht" <kenkknot@deruknot.com> wrote in message
news:Xns96B34E2FBBFC6kenkderucom@140.99.23.22...
> I'm looking for back-up software for a desktop running XP Home. The backup
> destination will be a second internal hard drive. Any suggestions?
>
> TIA
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Acronis TI is excellent. It will create a complete sytem backup from
Windows. Will do a complete BU from the self booting CD that you can create
with it. Good stuff.
The other option is, Norton Ghost.
best wishes..OJ
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| Bob Willard 2005-08-15, 5:47 pm |
| Ken Knecht wrote:
> I'm looking for back-up software for a desktop running XP Home. The backup
> destination will be a second internal hard drive. Any suggestions?
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> TIA
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NTBACKUP is included with your XP CD, and it does HD-HD backup.
It is short on features (e.g., no compression), but it is free.
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Cheers, Bob
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Ken Knecht wrote:
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> I'm looking for back-up software for a desktop running XP Home. The backup
> destination will be a second internal hard drive. Any suggestions?
>
> TIA
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> --
> Untie the two knots to email me
>
> "Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent."
> Jean Kerr
Ken,
For the best backup, I recommend getting an external hard drive (I like Maxtor)
and then buy a copy of Acronis 8.0, which allows you to create a total image
backup of your hard drive. In the event your internal hard drive fails, you
just put the Acronis bootable CD in the slot and restore your internal drive
exactly the way it was. Acronis is very user-friendly. I would do this in
addition to backing up to a second internal drive. My rule for backing up
hard drives/data is that your backed up drive should be wherever your computer
isn't. For example, my Maxtor external drive stays in my car.
Scott
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| le_temp_de@yahoo.com 2005-08-16, 5:53 pm |
| I completely agree with you, Scott.
True Image [http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage] is
wonderful for making back up. Every time when I use it, I like it more
and more.
My PC has 4 users, mom, dad, sister and me, now I don't worry for my
data and for my PC, as I could immediately restore all of it.
So I realy suggest you to try it.
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| Stephen D. 2005-08-16, 5:53 pm |
| Ken
To backup to external or internal drive check out Relative Rev Backup. It
will give you as many backup versions to restore your data from, plus it
works in incremental fashion slashing both backup time and space.
It also support backup redundancy.
Check it out at http://www.datamills.com
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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.
"Ken Knecht" <kenkknot@deruknot.com> wrote in message
news:Xns96B34E2FBBFC6kenkderucom@140.99.23.22...
> I'm looking for back-up software for a desktop running XP Home. The backup
> destination will be a second internal hard drive. Any suggestions?
>
> TIA
>
>
> --
> Untie the two knots to email me
>
> "Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent."
> Jean Kerr
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le_temp_de@yahoo.com wrote:
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> I completely agree with you, Scott.
> True Image [http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage] is
> wonderful for making back up. Every time when I use it, I like it more
> and more.
> My PC has 4 users, mom, dad, sister and me, now I don't worry for my
> data and for my PC, as I could immediately restore all of it.
> So I realy suggest you to try it.
le-temp:
You're right. I like my Acronis software more and more, too. It's interface
is very user friendly. I've tried booting with the Acronis Recover CD, and
it brings me to their familiar interface, and it looks very easy to restore
a drive image with no sweat. This is in contract to the Dantz Retrospect
software which came with my Maxtor external drive. Their instructions for
restoring a hard drive and complicated and confusing.
Scott
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le_temp_de@yahoo.com wrote:
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> I completely agree with you, Scott.
> True Image [http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage] is
> wonderful for making back up. Every time when I use it, I like it more
> and more.
> My PC has 4 users, mom, dad, sister and me, now I don't worry for my
> data and for my PC, as I could immediately restore all of it.
> So I realy suggest you to try it.
le-temp:
You're right. I like my Acronis software more and more, too. It's interface
is very user friendly. I've tried booting with the Acronis Recover CD, and
it brings me to their familiar interface, and it looks very easy to restore
a drive image with no sweat. This is in contrast to the Dantz Retrospect
software which came with my Maxtor external drive. Their instructions for
restoring a hard drive and complicated and confusing.
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| Scott wrote:
> For the best backup, I recommend getting an external hard drive (I
> like Maxtor) and then buy a copy of Acronis 8.0, which allows you to
> create a total image backup of your hard drive. In the event your
> internal hard drive fails, you just put the Acronis bootable CD in
> the slot and restore your internal drive exactly the way it was.
> Acronis is very user-friendly. I would do this in addition to
> backing up to a second internal drive. My rule for backing up hard
> drives/data is that your backed up drive should be wherever your
> computer isn't. For example, my Maxtor external drive stays in my
> car.
Acronis TI is absolutely great.
As altinative for an external hard drive I use several removable HD's.
It's a cheaper and -in my opinion- more versatile solution.
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| On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:02:15 GMT, "D@n" <dd@nopandoradotbespam.invalid> wrote:
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-Acronis TI is absolutely great.
-As altinative for an external hard drive I use several removable HD's.
-It's a cheaper and -in my opinion- more versatile solution.
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DO you *need* the server version to backup a W2003 server for disaster recovery?
$999 is steep - will the workstation one work?
-Rob
robatwork at mail dot com
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| Rob S wrote:
> DO you *need* the server version to backup a W2003 server for
> disaster recovery? $999 is steep - will the workstation one work?
> -Rob
Have no idea, really.
I have a simple PC (with TI) at home.
We have a server at work, but no TI
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| basketCASE 2005-08-22, 8:46 pm |
| On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:57:26 +0100, Rob S
<robatworkDeleteTheseFourWords@mail.com.INVALID> wrote:
>On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:02:15 GMT, "D@n" <dd@nopandoradotbespam.invalid> wrote:
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>-Acronis TI is absolutely great.
>-As altinative for an external hard drive I use several removable HD's.
>-It's a cheaper and -in my opinion- more versatile solution.
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>DO you *need* the server version to backup a W2003 server for disaster recovery?
>$999 is steep - will the workstation one work?
>-Rob
>robatwork at mail dot com
the short, short answer is... yes
Services that are running will not replicate correctly and/or won't be
recovered from shadow copy.
It's just the way servers work.
if it hurts.... take a pill!
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| chad@aahh.com 2005-09-05, 5:53 pm |
| Hi Ken,
What I do is to use tweakUI to change "My Documents" to "C:\docs" then
likewise change location of desktop, favorites, email and address book
to be within "c:\docs". With all critical data in one place, it's easy
to use a freeware tool like Back2zip to maintain ZIP archives of the
data on another drive (not just another partition of the same drive!!)
Personally, I run Back2zip on a second computer and have it backup my
main documents each evening from across the network. It's totally
automated and, each evening, creates a new daily archive.
http://free-backup.info/back2zip.html
And also some other freeware backup tools you might find useful:
http://free-backup.info/backup-software.htm
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| Hi Ken!
> I'm looking for back-up software for a desktop running XP Home. The backup
> destination will be a second internal hard drive. Any suggestions?
Take a look at our backup software: http://www.power-backup.com .
If you will find it useful, I can give you a discount.
Best regards,
Andrey Molchanov
http://www.power-backup.com
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