05-23-04 05:15 PM
In article <c5s3te$58a6v$1@ID-4362.news.uni-berlin.de>,
alexander.kluge@radiol.med.uni-giessen.de says...
> Hello!
> Although this group is aimed at "professionals discussing backup
> software", I would like to profit from your knowledge.
>
> Presently, I backup to rarely (once several weeks) actual work on an
> external Firewire HD. I use Backup4all, which was cheap and is easy to
> use. Its main drawback is the 2Gb limit of created Zip-Archives. Thus, I
> have to backup every one of 20 (sub)folders separately.
>
> My question: is there a cheap/free solution for winXP to create full,
> incremental or differential backup that produces (compressed) files
> readable outside of the program (as with zip files) regardless of the
> drive size to be backed up?
>
I use Second Copy 2000, but not with ZIP files.
Instead, I just turn the compressed flag on in NTFS for
the backup folders. SC200 also has the advantage that
it will copy changed/deleted files to a 2nd folder (and
you can specify how many revisions to keep). Runs in
the system tray, priority is configurable.
Example: Backing up C:\Dev folder.
Create F:\Dev\Active and F:\Dev\Trash on the external
drive. Set SC2000 to backup to the F:\Dev\Active tree,
and then set it to keep deleted files in the F:\Dev
\Trash tree. The active tree will be an exact mirror of
whatever is in C:\Dev.
I run my backups daily, usually in the early morning
hours. Since SC2000 only copies changed files, it only
takes a few minutes to do the delta. We use it on all
of the laptops at the office with external USB drives,
as well as on our developer workstations. (Hell, I even
use it as a down-n-dirty secondary backup method for
everything on the main file server in addition to the
daily tape backup. Quicker to pull a deleted file off
of the mirror folder then to load up yesterday's backup
tapes.)
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