so many to choose from.....
One of my customers is a veterinary office, with a server and 3 remote
desktops, all running WindowsXP. They have a program that does most of their
office records, and want to produce a daily backup. From what I can see, the
program directory is only about 90meg, but the data files look to be around
2 to 3GIG. Of course, not everything changes everyday, but I don't know
enough about the program to answer many in-depth questions. I installed a
DVD burner as they requested, and suggested that they need some sort of
backup management program, rather than just burning the files out to the DVD
periodically as they had planned. I've started looking around for a program
they could use, but am getting confused since there are so many out there!
Basically, they want something that:

1. will backup the designated fileset to CD or DVD, and allow them to be
restored in case of a crash.

2. do the above with a minimum of fuss and techno-savy.

3. It doesn't have to be automatic, although that would be a possibility.

4. Need I mention, cheap? Free would be nice, but certainly less than $100
for the package.

The backup will take place at the server, not over the network, so that
should simplify things a little (I hope).

We're not looking to do a full backup of the computer, since the server
contains about 18Gig of material right now. Just the specified office
program, it's database, and perhaps a few small items here and there....

Any suggestions of where to begin?

m9876c at yahoo dot com

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A friend just suggested SyncBack (www.2brightsparks.com), which he says does
pretty much what I need, and cheap... anyone have any experience (good or
bad) with this one? Any other recommendations (both positive and
negative???)...

m9876c at yahoo dot com

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1.  'will backup the designated fileset to CD or DVD'.
This one may take too much time and trouble. Not many programs have
direct CD write capability. The possibility for file corruption is very
high for a backup program to write direct to a CD. A Shared Storage
(external hard drive) is preferred. For speed, portability and
reliabilty.

'do the above with a minimum of fuss and techno-savy'
get a program like Incrediback
http://www.download.com/3000-2242_4-10370357.html

'It doesn't have to be automatic, although that would be a possibility'
Get automated scheduler. Set up jobs once and let them run.

Mark

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XP does various types of backups....here's some info.

http://www.theeldergeek.com/protecting_the_system.htm

http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/backup/diskimage.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...ll/proddocs/en-


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> so many to choose from.....
> One of my customers is a veterinary office, with a server and 3 remote
> desktops, all running WindowsXP. They have a program that does most of the
ir
> office records, and want to produce a daily backup. From what I can see, t
he
> program directory is only about 90meg, but the data files look to be aroun
d
> 2 to 3GIG. Of course, not everything changes everyday, but I don't know
> enough about the program to answer many in-depth questions. I installed a
> DVD burner as they requested, and suggested that they need some sort of
> backup management program, rather than just burning the files out to the D
VD
> periodically as they had planned. I've started looking around for a progra
m
> they could use, but am getting confused since there are so many out there!
> Basically, they want something that:
>
> 1. will backup the designated fileset to CD or DVD, and allow them to be
> restored in case of a crash.
>
> 2. do the above with a minimum of fuss and techno-savy.
>
> 3. It doesn't have to be automatic, although that would be a possibility.
>
> 4. Need I mention, cheap? Free would be nice, but certainly less than $100
> for the package.
>
> The backup will take place at the server, not over the network, so that
> should simplify things a little (I hope).
>
> We're not looking to do a full backup of the computer, since the server
> contains about 18Gig of material right now. Just the specified office
> program, it's database, and perhaps a few small items here and there....
>
> Any suggestions of where to begin?
>
> m9876c at yahoo dot com
>
>
>

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