I looked at USB hard drives at Best Buy the other day- I plan on buying a 1
TB drive. The backup software all seems similar at least from what the boxes
say.

or would it be better to use third party software like Acronis?

My PC has Vista- the backup software with that is extremely minimal.
Joe

Joe <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I looked at USB hard drives at Best Buy the other day- I plan on buying a 1
> TB drive. The backup software all seems similar at least from what the boxes
> say.

> or would it be better to use third party software like Acronis?

> My PC has Vista- the backup software with that is extremely minimal.
> Joe

It depends on your needs. The backup software coming with these things may
negatively surprise you, better not depend on it.

You can either do something using basic commands like robocopy, rsync,
etc., as Lynn suggests.

Or you buy a full-fleged backup software. If you are going to, a lot
of the available commercial backup software options have fundamental
flaws. TrueImage is one of the few that does well in all regards.

My personal solution is to backup Win 7 with Linux, using ntfscopy
for the NTFS system partition and plain GNU tar for the FAT32
data partitions.

Arno
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Joe wrote:

> I looked at USB hard drives at Best Buy the other day- I plan on
> buying a 1 TB drive. The backup software all seems similar at least
> from what the boxes say.

> or would it be better to use third party software like Acronis?

Thats what I prefer, mainly because it give you more capability.

> My PC has Vista- the backup software with that is extremely minimal.

On 6/16/2010 06:41, Joe wrote:
> I looked at USB hard drives at Best Buy the other day- I plan on buying
> a 1 TB drive. The backup software all seems similar at least from what
> the boxes say.

I know where my data is. So I only use drag-and-drop to copy files, then
use TreeComp to verify by content!

Yousuf Khan <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> On 6/16/2010 4:41 AM, Joe wrote:
>> I looked at USB hard drives at Best Buy the other day- I plan on buying
>> a 1 TB drive. The backup software all seems similar at least from what
>> the boxes say.
>>
>> or would it be better to use third party software like Acronis?
>>
>> My PC has Vista- the backup software with that is extremely minimal.
>> Joe

> I use the Windows 7 backup, which I hear is a quantum leap better than
> anything that came with Windows before, but I have no idea, as I never
> used any of the stuff that came in Windows before. I hear one of my
> systems has failed in Canada. I have backed it up with the Windows 7
> backup, so once I'm back in Canada I'll know how good it is at restore.
> Yeesh, why do these things always happen when you're gone?!

Better entertainment value that way ;-)

Seriously, you absolutely need to test the full restore procedure
before you need it.

Arno
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> One advantage of Acronis is the image you can get, then use that to
> rebuild the system, with the overhead of all the extra stuff imaged.
> PCB would require a reload of the OS and then a restore to just get your
> data.

Does it compress & burn a disk image into a bootable recovery DVD?

Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) wrote:
>> One advantage of Acronis is the image you can get, then use that to
>> rebuild the system, with the overhead of all the extra stuff imaged.
>> PCB would require a reload of the OS and then a restore to just get
>> your data.
>
> Does it compress & burn a disk image into a bootable recovery DVD?

You can do that, but its generally better to use a bootable
recovery CD that uses the image off an external hard drive
instead. Its a lot quicker to produce that sort of image.

I use Version Backup.

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On 6/15/2010 3:41 PM, Joe wrote:
> I looked at USB hard drives at Best Buy the other day- I plan on buying
> a 1 TB drive. The backup software all seems similar at least from what
> the boxes say.
>
> or would it be better to use third party software like Acronis?
>
> My PC has Vista- the backup software with that is extremely minimal.
> Joe
True Image has worked well for me. It's fast compared to some simple
ones I've tried. I guess the only disadvantage is the backup is in a
proprietary format.

On Jun 18, 5:14*am, iws <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
> On 6/15/2010 3:41 PM, Joe wrote:> I looked at USB hard drives at Best Buythe other day- I plan on buying
> > a 1 TB drive. The backup software all seems similar at least from what
> > the boxes say.
>
> > or would it be better to use third party software like Acronis?
>
> > My PC has Vista- the backup software with that is extremely minimal.
> > Joe
>
> True Image has worked well for me. It's fast compared to some simple
> ones I've tried. I guess the only disadvantage is the backup is in a
> proprietary format.

As an additional backup, do investigate online systems. Some are
fully automatic, some unlimited space, all take your data offsite. It
also will cope with power surges, fire, theft etc. Some people are
concerned about security, but for most users it is not critical. The
best solution my mind is both local, as you are looking at, and online
backup.

With any backup, it wants to be as automatic as possible, I often get
customers who say - I haven't done a back up for several weeks.

Michael
www.cnwrecovery.com