backup software recommendation

[mook Johnson]

Well.... I learned the hard lesson of not backing up and lost a bunch of
baby pictures and digital movies etc. GRRR...

Now I'm back up with a new 80 gig HDD and looking at a 250GIG external USB2
drive.

I'd like software to do the following.

1) Periodically make an image of the 80 gig HDD (either automatic or
manual). I'd like the image so that if the drive crashes again all I'd need
to do is restore the image to he new drive and its back up and runing like
nothing nothing happened.

2) I'd like to do this periodically as well with my 30GB laptop through a
wifi connection. I can take care of attaching a new notebook HDD to my
desktop to restore the image to it.

I'm looking for reliable software to accomplish this task.

suggestions?

Can the western digital data lifeguard software do this?

 

[Rock]

Well.... I learned the hard lesson of not backing up and lost a bunch of
baby pictures and digital movies etc. GRRR...

Now I'm back up with a new 80 gig HDD and looking at a 250GIG external
USB2 drive.

I'd like software to do the following.

1) Periodically make an image of the 80 gig HDD (either automatic or
manual). I'd like the image so that if the drive crashes again all I'd
need to do is restore the image to he new drive and its back up and runing
like nothing nothing happened.

2) I'd like to do this periodically as well with my 30GB laptop through a
wifi connection. I can take care of attaching a new notebook HDD to my
desktop to restore the image to it.

I'm looking for reliable software to accomplish this task.

suggestions?

Can the western digital data lifeguard software do this?

I would suggest you look at Acronis True Image 10. I don't believe the WD
software does imaging. It will clone a drive, mostly useful for copying the
contents of an old to a new drive when replacing a drive.

 

[BChat]

I agree with Rock - give Acronis True Image 10 a look/see. I have been very
happy with it.
BChat

Well.... I learned the hard lesson of not backing up and lost a bunch of
baby pictures and digital movies etc. GRRR...

Now I'm back up with a new 80 gig HDD and looking at a 250GIG external USB2
drive.

I'd like software to do the following.

1) Periodically make an image of the 80 gig HDD (either automatic or
manual). I'd like the image so that if the drive crashes again all I'd need
to do is restore the image to he new drive and its back up and runing like
nothing nothing happened.

2) I'd like to do this periodically as well with my 30GB laptop through a
wifi connection. I can take care of attaching a new notebook HDD to my
desktop to restore the image to it.

I'm looking for reliable software to accomplish this task.

suggestions?

Can the western digital data lifeguard software do this?

 

[Plato]

Well.... I learned the hard lesson of not backing up and lost a bunch of
baby pictures and digital movies etc. GRRR...

Now I'm back up with a new 80 gig HDD and looking at a 250GIG external USB2
drive.

I'd like software to do the following.

1) Periodically make an image of the 80 gig HDD (either automatic or
manual). I'd like the image so that if the drive crashes again all I'd need
to do is restore the image to he new drive and its back up and runing like
nothing nothing happened.

2) I'd like to do this periodically as well with my 30GB laptop through a
wifi connection. I can take care of attaching a new notebook HDD to my
desktop to restore the image to it.

I'm looking for reliable software to accomplish this task.

The first thing you need to do is keep your most important data in a
special folder or two and periodically copy that data to standard 700 MB
cd-r(s) with the "multi-session" turned off aka "no further writing" aka
"finalize cd -no further writing possible thingamajig set.

Kindly note that an Image file is a _single_ file so if it's not
"perfect" ALL the data within it may be unusable if you need to do a
restore.Yes it's really nice to have your most important data plainly
copied to another drive in another pc to make it easy to get at it in
case of a hardware crash and restore.

Make sure you have at least 2 plain CD copies of your most important
files and keep the sets in different places in your home, or better yet,
in a different local perhaps at a relatives house in case of fire or
flood. Yes, hard drive copies of your data are nice to have also as a
secondary or convenient backup method.