Backup Software

[TCH-Rob]

Well, After another system crash and a total loss of data I am in need of backup software. You would think with 2 burners I would be doing this already. I am looking for something I can do a full backup with and then schedule incremental backups every 2 weeks for the changes. This will be for a windows machine but inexpensive is what I am looking for. Irked me so much I switched to BSD and left her with the Windows machine.

[Head Guru]

Synchback is the best backup tool I have found.

 

http://www.mjleaver.com/

 

Its Free!

[Madmanmcp]

Norton Ghost:

 

http://www.atomicpark.com/productDetail.as...=17328&refId=12

 

http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/

[Head Guru]

Ghost is good buy not free or cheap.

[river10]

I used to burn CDs for my backups, but once had a big problem in that my computer would not read the CD when my older one crashed and I had to move to a new one.

 

I now use an online backup service to store all my files securely offsite. There's a lot out there, but I use firstbackup.com

 

You can schedule your backups to run automatically and the files are stored compressed on their servers.

 

Good luck. Backing up is very important and I recommend doing it often and in as many different ways possible. I almost lost a LOT of unrecoverable information.

[scotttyz]

I use a removable hard drive and Ghost using the "clone" option. This creates a bootable full hard drive for ya. I have had some problems will the Cdilla key stuff, but just delete the Cdilla folder and renter your codes. Hard drives are so cheap these days you can buy 2 and probably save money on cd's in the long run. I also burn my "my Docs" to CD's every week or so.

 

If you have a "crash" just change your bios load settings to point to the removable hard drive, reboot and you are up and running. Load the latest My Docs and off to the races.

[DarqFlare]

In the near future I plan on grabbing an external 200GB hard drive and dumping Ghost images onto it from my 2 hard drives.