Virginia said:
Windows backup is one of the worst applications to be used for backup.
Just copy your files over directly or perhaps zip them first...
Windows Backup should not be considered as a viable option
philo,
I would have to disagree with that, for the most part. Disk imaging and
many other utils are as good or better, but it's a fully viable
application. As usual with MS implementations of things like that it
lacks bells & whistles, but that's OK in my book.
The ntbackup.exe which comes with both versions of XP is a fully
functional and useful application, especially when it's all one has and
the backups can't wait. You can backup and restore the entire machine,
a folder, or a file, as with all backup utils. It's cons are the silly
floppy requirement to recover from a catastrophic drive loss, no
compression and it won't burn directly to a CD necessitating a save to a
local drive and then a copy to an external etc., but ... if you have a
floppy and make the ASR disk, recovery is just as good as any imaging
program. It's even a tad faster than Acronis True Image, and almost as
fast as Norton's Ghost, but there's little enough difference for it to
matter. And there are a lot fewer things to go wrong with it.
Regards,
Twayne
