|
Home > Archive > Backup Software > March 2007 > Backup Software That Runs on Microsoft Vista
You are viewing an archived Text-only version of the thread.
To view this thread in it's original format and/or if you want to reply to
this thread please [click here]
| Author |
Backup Software That Runs on Microsoft Vista
|
|
| Charliec 2007-03-09, 7:15 pm |
| My current backup software (BackUp MyPC from Sonic Solutions/Roxio) is
not compatible with Vista. Are there good backup programs out there
that are compatible with Vista?
Thanks for any tips.
Charlie
****************************************
**************
Charliec
| |
| Peter Frank 2007-03-10, 7:14 am |
| Charliec wrote:
>My current backup software (BackUp MyPC from Sonic Solutions/Roxio) is
>not compatible with Vista. Are there good backup programs out there
>that are compatible with Vista?
Hi Charlie,
Backup4all is Vista-compatible (http://www.backup4all.com/). I think
it is a good program but it also has some things that should be fixed:
a) Empty folders are not backed up. (There are cases where empty
folders are important even though they may not contain data all the
time.)
b) This may indeed be a very rare case but when the only changes that
occurred are deleted items, the backup catalog/index is not modified
and hence these changes are not incorporated in any way.
There is a trial available on the website.
Regards,
Peter
P.S.: You asked for a data backup program, right? Creating a backup of
your complete operating system (HDD imaging) is a horse of a different
color and you would use different programs for that (e.g. Acronis
TrueImage 10).
| |
| Claudiu Spulber 2007-03-12, 7:13 am |
| Hi Peter,
Just wanted to add some comments to the reported issues about Backup4all:
a) this is already being worked on, it will be included in one of the future
versions
b)i know we discussed with you about this, thing is that with
full/incremental/differential it doesn't make sense to create a new backup
only when files are deleted - but this will be recognized when a backup
where other changes are done is executed; also, for mirror backup there's a
"Remove excluded or deleted files from backup"
http://www.backup4all.com/templates...rror_backup.htm that
does this
Thank you.
--
Regards,
Claudiu Spulber
http://www.backup4all.com
http://www.novapdf.com
"Peter Frank" <peter_frankde@yahoo.de> wrote in message
news:ttq4v29s4eappgovarr4kqcd55rj6tjvtr@
4ax.com...
> Charliec wrote:
>
>
> Hi Charlie,
>
> Backup4all is Vista-compatible (http://www.backup4all.com/). I think
> it is a good program but it also has some things that should be fixed:
>
> a) Empty folders are not backed up. (There are cases where empty
> folders are important even though they may not contain data all the
> time.)
>
> b) This may indeed be a very rare case but when the only changes that
> occurred are deleted items, the backup catalog/index is not modified
> and hence these changes are not incorporated in any way.
>
> There is a trial available on the website.
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>
> P.S.: You asked for a data backup program, right? Creating a backup of
> your complete operating system (HDD imaging) is a horse of a different
> color and you would use different programs for that (e.g. Acronis
> TrueImage 10).
| |
| Peter Frank 2007-03-12, 7:14 pm |
| Claudiu Spulber wrote:
>Hi Peter,
>Just wanted to add some comments to the reported issues about Backup4all:
>a) this is already being worked on, it will be included in one of the future
>versions
Good to hear.
>b)i know we discussed with you about this,
You seem to keep good track of your discussions ;-)
>thing is that with
>full/incremental/differential it doesn't make sense to create a new backup
>only when files are deleted - but this will be recognized when a backup
>where other changes are done is executed;
I agree the described case is more of an hypothetical scenario. I
could happen but is very unlikely because deletions are usually
accompanied by other operations as well . And in the case it would
happen I would not *lose* any files but just get some unwanted files
back that I would have to weed out again after the restore. No real
disaster ;-)
>also, for mirror backup there's a
>"Remove excluded or deleted files from backup"
>http://www.backup4all.com/templates...rror_backup.htm that
>does this
Mirror backups for backups are great for backing up on hard disk
drives, but for removable media like CDs or DVDs they are not very
well suited.
Peter
| |
| Claudiu Spulber 2007-03-13, 7:14 am |
| >>You seem to keep good track of your discussions ;-)
long live the desktop search utilities ;).
Agree with mirror backups on cd/dvd, if you have lots of documents you're
wasting time and money (maybe this will change with blu-ray discs).
--
Regards,
Claudiu Spulber
http://www.backup4all.com
http://www.novapdf.com
"Peter Frank" <peter_frankde@yahoo.de> wrote in message
news:lv9bv2hutnt093cun66kplcftl36a1mr2m@
4ax.com...
> Claudiu Spulber wrote:
>
>
> Good to hear.
>
>
> You seem to keep good track of your discussions ;-)
>
>
> I agree the described case is more of an hypothetical scenario. I
> could happen but is very unlikely because deletions are usually
> accompanied by other operations as well . And in the case it would
> happen I would not *lose* any files but just get some unwanted files
> back that I would have to weed out again after the restore. No real
> disaster ;-)
>
>
> Mirror backups for backups are great for backing up on hard disk
> drives, but for removable media like CDs or DVDs they are not very
> well suited.
>
> Peter
|
|
|
|
|