Best way to backup?

**iNeb** · March 6th, 2003, 06:58 PM

I have two drives

My main drive 100GB with 4 partitions.

My old drive from my past computer, 40GB

What would be the best way to do automatic backups for 3 partitions from my 100GB?

**sixf00t4** · March 6th, 2003, 07:17 PM

well what kind of back up are you looking for? if you just want some files, maybe a sync program is what you want. iomega quicksync is good for that. if you want full blown back ups, just use M$' back up. the gripe i have about that is that it stores the entire back up in 1 file. i dont trust it.

**iNeb** · March 6th, 2003, 07:24 PM

Ah, 1 file. No way...

I want to basicly do a mirror in a way, but not live time, don't want to buy a raid controller

**S.D.Willie** · March 6th, 2003, 07:26 PM

if you have a cdwriter use ghost to make image dumps to cd. in a little while you have your own restore cd's custom made which is great.

SD

**iNeb** · March 6th, 2003, 07:31 PM

My motherboard came with ghost7 (AKA 2001, right?)

I heard this doesn't work with XP, what else can i do with it?

Also, i'm backing up over 2GB so cd's won't work, and i don't want a dvd burner just yet..

**Zitch** · March 7th, 2003, 05:30 PM

You could try http://www.xxcopy.com

Basically a souped up version of xcopy. There is a freeware version if you're not copying through a network (doesn't look like you are). Look up the CLONE option, and get used to using scheduler to run it at specific times.

Good luck.