I am looking for a free Back up and Restore program for complete system. I
bought a few that turned out to be crap they would only back up a few gigs
and I am looking for a least 50 gig
Thank You

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 00:09:15 GMT, "Ed" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I am looking for a free Back up and Restore program for complete system. I
>bought a few that turned out to be crap they would only back up a few gigs
>and I am looking for a least 50 gig

Usually the tape drive comes with a backup program.

You must be looking for something like Ghost.

I never was much on backing up a system. That's what the Windows
distribution disk is for. Why not just back up your files with a program
like Cobain Backup? It's probably quicker to re-install Windows and files
than do a complete system restore.

Bob

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 06:03:16 -0500, Bob Adkins <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>I never was much on backing up a system. That's what the Windows
>distribution disk is for.

Using that destroys all the work you've done securing the OS. It would
take me a long time to reset everything.

>Why not just back up your files with a program
>like Cobain Backup? It's probably quicker to re-install Windows and files
>than do a complete system restore.

Not if you use a clone restore facility which only copies files that
have changed or don't exist, and deletes files that no longer exist.
Then it goes very quickly. I use XXCOPY with the /clone switch. It's a
little bit tricky but it can be done. I can reclone Windows off a
backup hard drive on a removeable tray. Works very well.


Art
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