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December 15th, 2004, 11:26 AM
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I wqnt to get a really good backup program for my PC. Any recommendations?
My OS is XP Home. I know XP has a builtin backup program but I am unable to get it to run. Any ideas there also?
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December 15th, 2004, 11:28 AM
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December 15th, 2004, 11:34 AM
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Many thanks. I'll take a look at it. | |
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December 15th, 2004, 01:37 PM
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For a home user... I'd say Ghost as well. For a business, Veritas Backup Exec. That program rocks! 
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December 15th, 2004, 01:40 PM
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To tag along with this users question can any of you list great back up software that supports DVDrs? I would love to back up a fresh installation and Store it on a few DVDs instead of 15 CDs. As stated above I think Ghost is great. It is what we use at work and it works great I just dont know if it supports DVDrs as I havent had the time to really work with it. | |
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December 15th, 2004, 01:55 PM
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Image software alone (such as Ghost) is NOT a sufficient backup program as you can easily loose all data in an image file past any error in the file. What you want is a file-by-file backup program like My Backup or Dantz Retrospect where, if any data is lost, only the one corrupt file will be lost.
. You can use a disk imager too for Quick & Dirty recovery, but for a secure backup you need the other type as well.
.bh.
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December 15th, 2004, 02:48 PM
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I partition my drive and separate my files from my installations (Windows, programs, hardware, etc). I back my installations with Drive Image and my files by regular back up with a CD.
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December 15th, 2004, 04:12 PM
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I agree with zepper. Images are good but it's not a sub for file by file backup. I RAID my server but backup its data also using Imega Quicksync 3 (obsolete). It is scheduled to backup changed files at 3AM.
My client PCs have two drives and I image the C drive every month to an image file. If the PC becomes unbootable, I can restore the entire drive.
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December 16th, 2004, 12:37 AM
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Does or have anybody used the backup program on xp cd? | |
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December 16th, 2004, 12:51 AM
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Windows Backup? Sure I used to use it on a tape drive. Didn't really care for it to be honest.
Found Backup Exec to work much better.
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