Backup program for XP

[Tritoneur]

I have recently upgraded to Win XP from WinMe and as a result can no longer
use the version of Easy CD Creator (4) and Direct CD that was included with
my machine. In addition I have had a few problems in the past backing up
onto CDRW with data becoming inaccessible, and problems with reading UDF
format on other CD drives.

I have decided that the best (and cheapest) option would be for me to
perform regular backups of essential data (My documents, PST files, photos
etc.) on CDR using the resident copy routine in Windows XP.

The freeware backup programs I have seen seem to need 'packet-writing'
software (e.g. My Own Backup)

Is there a freeware backup utility that uses the CDR writing utility in
Windows XP, rather than UDF format? This would be for regular backup of
folders and sub-folders, but also for individual files (e.g. .pst files).

Advice on backup programs would be appreciated, as well as any general
advice on routine data backup to CD.

TIA

Tritoneur

 

[Richard Steven Hack]

I have recently upgraded to Win XP from WinMe and as a result can no longer
use the version of Easy CD Creator (4) and Direct CD that was included with
my machine. In addition I have had a few problems in the past backing up
onto CDRW with data becoming inaccessible, and problems with reading UDF
format on other CD drives.

Here's an article on how to use Windows XP Backup to backup to CD-RW
drives.
http://www.winnetmag.com/WindowsStorage/Article/ArticleID/24412/WindowsStorage_24412.html

The freeware backup programs I have seen seem to need 'packet-writing'
software (e.g. My Own Backup)
Yup.

Is there a freeware backup utility that uses the CDR writing utility in
Windows XP, rather than UDF format? This would be for regular backup of
folders and sub-folders, but also for individual files (e.g. .pst files).

As far as I know, there is NO freeware backup utility that can burn
directly to CDR/RW without the use of UDF.

There are of course numerous shareware and commercial utilities
(including Nero V6 ) that will.

There is a utility ported from Linux called DAR (Disk Archive) that
runs from the command line and uses the cdrtools package to burn
backups to CDR/RW or any other media. It has the ability to restore
damaged backups using the Parchive PAR file (parity file) creation
tool. It is not a simple program to use, however.
http://dar.linux.free.fr/

What I do at the moment in Windows 2000 is set up XXCopy, the command
line extended copy program regularly recommended here in ACF, in a
simple batch file to backup all changed files from all my partitions
to a backup partition. XXCopy can do almost anything, although
figuring out HOW to do it is not always easy. Once the backup is
made, I just use Nero to drag-and-drop bunches of directories into its
GUI and burn as many disks as I need to do the backup (lately with
DVDs instead of CDs). I would like to setup a more automated way to
do backups, but at the moment this looks like a challenge on Windows.
On Linux, there are any number of tools that make this feasible, as
well as scripts already done by others, but on Windows, one would have
to use ported UNIX tools to do this, I think.

WHY we have freeware burn programs and no freeware backup program to
use them is a total mystery to me...

 

[Tritoneur]

WHY we have freeware burn programs and no freeware backup program to
use them is a total mystery to me...

Thank you for the helpful information and suggestions. I guess I was looking
for a simple backup (and burn) utility which would enable me to automate
daily and/or weekly backup of data files to CDR directly, without the need
to use the Windows backup system utility.

I shall investigate your suggestions. It may be that I shall have to use a
freeware utility to automate the backup files and folders to the HD, and
then burn that folder to CD, although I have fairly limited HD capacity
(20GB).

Many thanks

Tritoneur

 

[jmatt]

Have a look here

http://www.hsinlin.com/software/backup.html
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[jmatt]

More here .

http://www.dirfile.com/utilities_backup-1.htm

http://www.dirfile.com/simply_safe_backup.htm

http://www.simplysafebackup.com/new_index.php?page=details.htm

http://www.dirfile.com/backup_maker.htm

http://www.ascomp.net/index.php?php=prog&prog=backupmaker.en

http://freedownloadscenter.com/Utilities/Backup_and_Copy_Utilities/free/index2.html

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Utilities/Backup_and_Copy_Utilities/BackUp_Maker.html
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[jmatt]

Backup4Win
http://www.sover.net/~wysiwygx/WinUtils1.html
http://www.alistairgeorge.com/b4win/
http://www.alistairgeorge.com/b4win/b4win.exe
95/98/2k/XP

CopyNow
http://www.acer-access.com/[email protected]/copynow.htm
CopyNow is a Windows based software program. Its main function and
purpose is to backup
user-specified files and retain same directory structure.

DrvImagerXP
http://www.tlfw.dk/TLFW/DrvImagerXP.php
http://www.softnews.ro/public/cat/13/2/13-2-39.shtml
http://www.all4you.dk/FreewareWorld/links.php?page=8&cat=007
http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/drvimagerxpsetup_2.2.html

My Own Backup
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description.asp?fid=7023
http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/mobv21.html

Peter's Backup
http://www.webgrid.co.uk/fileman_9.html
http://pbackup.sourceforge.net/summary.html
Win95/98/ME/NT/2K/XP
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[Tritoneur]

Backup4Win
http://www.sover.net/~wysiwygx/WinUtils1.html
http://www.alistairgeorge.com/b4win/
http://www.alistairgeorge.com/b4win/b4win.exe
95/98/2k/XP

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Plenty to have a look at there! Thanks a bunch jmatt!

Tritoneur