Backup Software Question

[FrankO]

I am looking for a good Backup Program that will backup my computer to an
external HD. Can someone suggest a good program?

 

[CS]

I am looking for a good Backup Program that will backup my computer to an
external HD. Can someone suggest a good program?

Acronis True Image Home edition. Go here for info:

www.acronis.com

 

[Brian A]

I am looking for a good Backup Program that will backup my computer to an external
HD. Can someone suggest a good program?

Norton Ghost.
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/

Acronis TrueImage:
http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/choose-trueimage/

BootitNG
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html

Create the floppy as instructed, then boot with the floppy in the drive and select
cancel to continue without installing. You can perform partition tasks as well as
create an image.

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Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }
Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

 

[Rock]

I am looking for a good Backup Program that will backup my computer to an
external HD. Can someone suggest a good program?

I recommend a drive imaging program. The current favorite is Acronis True
Image 10. There is also Norton Ghost, and Terabyte Unlimited's Image for
Windows and BootItNG. It's worthwhile to have redundancy. Burn a copy of
the image to DVD.

 

[Nick Goetz]

I am looking for a good Backup Program that will backup my computer to
an external HD. Can someone suggest a good program?

If you're not backing up your entire drive, have a look at this one:

Second Copy
http://www.centered.com/

Nick Goetz

 

[Al Dykes]

If you're not backing up your entire drive, have a look at this one:

Second Copy
http://www.centered.com/

Nick Goetz

ntbackup is included in every 32-bit version. It has to be installed
from the CD on XP/home.

It will do a fine job of backup up the entire OS and data to another
disk and you can browse the resulting saveset to restore individual
files. Restoring to a bare disk is a bit of a PITA until you
understand the process, but hopefully you don't do that often.


Tips: ntbackup can't break the saveset into chunks. That means you'll
hit the 4GB (?) FAT32 limit. You have to format the target disk as
NTFS.

ntbackup doesn't compress data. The solution is to give the folder on
your backup disk the "compress" property.

 

[Frank Parmelee]

Thanks to everyone for your help and suggestions. After considering some of
the choices offered up, I chose Acronis True Image 10.

 

[Rock]

Thanks to everyone for your help and suggestions. After considering some
of the choices offered up, I chose Acronis True Image 10.

<snip>

You're welcome.

 

[Guest]

What if u only have the image on the USB/ext HD and you int HD craps out.
Will the PC recognize the ext HD to restore from or do you need some sort of
"boot disk"?

 

[Brian A.]

an another vote for true image, IMO it the best backup prog for now.
the last good version of ghost was 2003, now it's not as impressive as
true image.
here is a good comparison of TI and ghost:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/drive-imaging-reviews.htm

That "comparison", which by the way has many untruths, is an opinion of a
disheartened user. Both AcronisTI and Norton Ghost have their good points and bad
points, which will differ from end user to end user and which product version is used
by each.


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Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }
Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

 

[Poprivet]

an another vote for true image, IMO it the best backup prog for now.
the last good version of ghost was 2003, now it's not as impressive as
true image.
here is a good comparison of TI and ghost:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/drive-imaging-reviews.htm

That's a biased article, from a known dummy, contains errors and
misinformation and also smacks of the GE factory lighting study. I wouldn't
depend too heavily on it - even experienced Norton haters know better than
to refer to it because it's just inaccurate.

It's not really a case of which is better; it's more which one fits better
with how the user expects it to be operated. Personally I like Ghost 10
over TI, but others like TI over Ghost; it's a personal choice; there's no
difference in the usability/reliability of the two. And then if yhou're
more technically savvy, there is BootItNG, also good.

 

[HappyRuby]

I recommend a drive imaging program. The current favorite is Acroni
True
Image 10. There is also Norton Ghost, and Terabyte Unlimited's Imag
for
Windows and BootItNG. It's worthwhile to have redundancy. Burn a cop
of
the image to DVD.

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How do you back up using Acronis True Image 10 and CD's. I did
back-up to the harddrive but it was too large to burn to a CD - can yo
do the backup directly to a CD?

Happy Rub