Backup solutions - looking for some advice

[John The Geek]

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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[Kelly]

Try one of the Vista groups!

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[Thip]

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.

 

[John The Geek]

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.

 

[Kelly]

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

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All the Best and Happy Holidays,
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