I am running Vista Ultimate 32 bit and have a NAS device attached
to my network on which I would like to have weekly "full" backups
and daily incrementals.

I have tried Cobian (free) and Acronis Home (not free) and neither
of these meet my needs. Cobian was fine except that it tended to hang
when trying to communicate with my NAS. Acronis was just slow, 3 days
to do a full backup (My Documents and Outlook App Settings).
Not acceptable.

Can anyone recommend a good solution that will allow me to create
weekly full (as explained above, only My Documents and one other file are
required for my backup) and daily incrementals and have them stored
either via drive mapping or ftp to my NAS. Both of these methods work
outside of the realm of a backup program so I'm happy with using either.

Thanks


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Try one of the Vista groups!

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"John The Geek" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I am running Vista Ultimate 32 bit and have a NAS device attached
> to my network on which I would like to have weekly "full" backups
> and daily incrementals.
>
> I have tried Cobian (free) and Acronis Home (not free) and neither
> of these meet my needs. Cobian was fine except that it tended to hang
> when trying to communicate with my NAS. Acronis was just slow, 3 days
> to do a full backup (My Documents and Outlook App Settings).
> Not acceptable.
>
> Can anyone recommend a good solution that will allow me to create
> weekly full (as explained above, only My Documents and one other file are
> required for my backup) and daily incrementals and have them stored
> either via drive mapping or ftp to my NAS. Both of these methods work
> outside of the realm of a backup program so I'm happy with using either.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> --
> *************************************************
> * Cranky Geeks Rule http://www.crankygeeks.com
> * I want to be a Cranky Geek
> * running Ubuntu 8.04, Windows Vista and Mac OS X
> * on one wireless network, all talking nicely
> *************************************************
>

"John The Geek" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:Xns9B73C811567E7cgeekwannabegmailcom@85.214.105.209...
>I am running Vista Ultimate 32 bit and have a NAS device attached
> to my network on which I would like to have weekly "full" backups
> and daily incrementals.
>
> I have tried Cobian (free) and Acronis Home (not free) and neither
> of these meet my needs. Cobian was fine except that it tended to hang
> when trying to communicate with my NAS. Acronis was just slow, 3 days
> to do a full backup (My Documents and Outlook App Settings).
> Not acceptable.
>
> Can anyone recommend a good solution that will allow me to create
> weekly full (as explained above, only My Documents and one other file are
> required for my backup) and daily incrementals and have them stored
> either via drive mapping or ftp to my NAS. Both of these methods work
> outside of the realm of a backup program so I'm happy with using either.
>
> Thanks
>

I've used Acronis for several years on XP and it has *never* been slow.
Once I set it for maximum compression and it crawled, so I cancelled it and
left it at the default settings. Could this have been your problem? Or,
perhaps, the version--I'm using Home V. 9 and I believe 10 had some serious
issues.

On 2008-12-13, John The Geek <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I am running Vista Ultimate 32 bit and have a NAS device attached
> to my network on which I would like to have weekly "full" backups
> and daily incrementals.
>
> I have tried Cobian (free) and Acronis Home (not free) and neither
> of these meet my needs. Cobian was fine except that it tended to hang
> when trying to communicate with my NAS. Acronis was just slow, 3 days
> to do a full backup (My Documents and Outlook App Settings).
> Not acceptable.
>
> Can anyone recommend a good solution that will allow me to create
> weekly full (as explained above, only My Documents and one other file are
> required for my backup) and daily incrementals and have them stored
> either via drive mapping or ftp to my NAS. Both of these methods work
> outside of the realm of a backup program so I'm happy with using either.
>
> Thanks
>
>

Sorry for the gaff. I will repost this in the Vista group.
Again, sorry for the error.

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No problem. Just figured you would get more info there.

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"John The Geek" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:gi1jkk$b9i$(E-Mail Removed)...
> On 2008-12-13, John The Geek <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> I am running Vista Ultimate 32 bit and have a NAS device attached
>> to my network on which I would like to have weekly "full" backups
>> and daily incrementals.
>>
>> I have tried Cobian (free) and Acronis Home (not free) and neither
>> of these meet my needs. Cobian was fine except that it tended to hang
>> when trying to communicate with my NAS. Acronis was just slow, 3 days
>> to do a full backup (My Documents and Outlook App Settings).
>> Not acceptable.
>>
>> Can anyone recommend a good solution that will allow me to create
>> weekly full (as explained above, only My Documents and one other file are
>> required for my backup) and daily incrementals and have them stored
>> either via drive mapping or ftp to my NAS. Both of these methods work
>> outside of the realm of a backup program so I'm happy with using either.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>
> Sorry for the gaff. I will repost this in the Vista group.
> Again, sorry for the error.
>
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> Flaky 8.10 ..back to 8.04 but not giving up on Ubuntu
> Converted Vista machine to Linux in 30 minutes
> Fully configured in less than 2 hrs
> RLU 451587