Win XP Backup Utility

[Dan]

I recently installed a Buffalo Technologies NAS Drive on
my WIN-XP system. It appears to be running an imbedded
version of NT 4.9. The problem is, when using the Windows
backup utility, the archive bit for files on this drive do
not get cleared, thus making incremental backups useless.
All files become candidate for backup in incremental mode
because thats what the utility uses to select files to
backup.

Does anyone konw of a way to correct this? i.e. set/clear
the archive bit as appropriate.

Alternativly, is there a hidden option somewhere to
specify the modification date as a parameter to the backup
utility? This feature appears to have been removed from
the utility at some point. I would be happy if I could
specify "backup files modified since mm/dd/yyyy"

Hopefully someone knows a good answer!
thx

 

[Guest]

My suggestion is that since you have a NAS drive, use Ghost or Drive image and do a full Hard Disk Drive Image

Done this way, your 'backup' process will take about 1/2 hour and will capture the full hard disk

Then should you need to recover from a failure, the full Windows setup [all applications, all user files, all email etc] can be recreated in less than 1/2 hour

A must better and simpler way for the average user. PLUS full system backup and recover that ensures you are totally up and running from a full disaster in 1/2 hour...think of it: that's less than the time it takes to install a clean version of XP!