Hi,

I have a Windows XP workstation with a 300Gb RAID 10 disk on it. It is
used for producing 3D graphics and animation. It is split up into 3
partitions. At the moment I'm only using one.

I am moving into business premises for the first time and will need to
back up to a removable hard-drive so that I can take the back up off
site to guard against it being stolen. I am thinking of buying three
300gb external sata hard drives and backing up the machine on each of
them in a cycle.

Is there back up software out there that I can choose back up specific
folders which include subfolders and it would efficiently back up only
the files that had changed or new files. Or is this kind of thing
inefficient and you're better off wiping the external drive each time
and backing up with a fresh set of everything?

Any advice welcome. Thanks.

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Why dont you use NTBACKUP

Go To Start -> Programs-> Accessories--> System Tools --> Backup.

Follow the backup Wizzard through. Its very straight forward.

Or you could use something such as Second Copy.

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In news:1139243230.291035.94630@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com,
wrreisen@yahoo.com <wrreisen@yahoo.com> typed:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Windows XP workstation with a 300Gb RAID 10 disk on it. It is
> used for producing 3D graphics and animation. It is split up into 3
> partitions. At the moment I'm only using one.
>
> I am moving into business premises for the first time and will need to
> back up to a removable hard-drive so that I can take the back up off
> site to guard against it being stolen. I am thinking of buying three
> 300gb external sata hard drives and backing up the machine on each of
> them in a cycle.
>
> Is there back up software out there that I can choose back up specific
> folders which include subfolders and it would efficiently back up only
> the files that had changed or new files. Or is this kind of thing
> inefficient and you're better off wiping the external drive each time
> and backing up with a fresh set of everything?
>
> Any advice welcome. Thanks.

You do know you're posting this in a MS Small Business Server newsgroup,
right? This might better have been posted in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, of all the MS groups.

That said - get whatever backup medium you wish, and think about something
like robocopy from the resource kit (downloadable from MS) to run a job that
copies <source> to <destination> as indidual files, leaving the folder
structure intact. You can set this up as a batch file and run it regularly.

NTBackup is another fine option, although it doesn't let you access files
directly from the removable hard drives on another workstaion - you'd have
to do a restore using NTBackup.

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Hi,

I recommend use DoubleSafety (http://www.doublesafety.com). It can back
up all the data every time or only new and changed files.

DoubleSafety has feature that you will like - creating backup shortcuts
on the desktop. One click and your data will be backed up.

And there are a VERY easy and intuitive interface, so you will not
spend much time to setting up backup options.

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Backup Exec 10d will do what you ask by backing up to the removable HDD. Get
an evaluation version at http://www.backupexec.com and try it free for 60
days. That should give you time to get a feel for it.

Nick

<wrreisen@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a Windows XP workstation with a 300Gb RAID 10 disk on it. It is
> used for producing 3D graphics and animation. It is split up into 3
> partitions. At the moment I'm only using one.
>
> I am moving into business premises for the first time and will need to
> back up to a removable hard-drive so that I can take the back up off
> site to guard against it being stolen. I am thinking of buying three
> 300gb external sata hard drives and backing up the machine on each of
> them in a cycle.
>
> Is there back up software out there that I can choose back up specific
> folders which include subfolders and it would efficiently back up only
> the files that had changed or new files. Or is this kind of thing
> inefficient and you're better off wiping the external drive each time
> and backing up with a fresh set of everything?
>
> Any advice welcome. Thanks.
>

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