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Talal Itani
Which utility do you use to backup your data? I have been using NTbackup
,but I dislike this utility. Thank you.
Talal Itani
,but I dislike this utility. Thank you.
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Brian K
I use Retrospect 6.5 it shipped with my Western Digital external usbWhich utility do you use to backup your data? I have been using NTbackup
,but I dislike this utility. Thank you.
Talal Itani
backup drive. It's fairly flexible. In addition to backup hard drives,
it also works with a selection of tape drives and zip drives. The only
thing it won't do is burn DVDs or CDs. You can set it to copy your hard
drive, or backup as compressed files. Retrospect works with WD backup
drives "One Touch" class of drives. You set your backup preferences
with Retrospect. Then as long as the backup drive is powered up you just
touch the button and the software does the rest. Works great if you
missed a scheduled backup due to your system being down for a while.
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Allan
I use both CD burning software and the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard. ITalal Itani said:Which utility do you use to backup your data? I have been using NTbackup
,but I dislike this utility. Thank you.
Talal Itani
just copy the data to my second hard drive. NTBackup is a good solution in
case you have a tape drive.
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Matt
I'm using Nero BackItUp at the moment, though backing up large amountsTalal said:Which utility do you use to backup your data? I have been using NTbackup
,but I dislike this utility. Thank you.
Talal Itani
of data to dvd-r is quite time consuming.
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DL
People have different preferences, besides which you received similar advice
in your last post on imaging
in your last post on imaging
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Talal Itani
DL said:People have different preferences, besides which you received similar
advice
in your last post on imaging
Yes, Good point. I am trying to find out what people do about backups. My
backup solution is primitive. I need an automated way. Thanks.
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Talal Itani
Matt said:I'm using Nero BackItUp at the moment, though backing up large amounts
of data to dvd-r is quite time consuming.
How long does it take you to write to one DVD?
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Whomever
Talal Itani said:Which utility do you use to backup your data? I have been using NTbackup
,but I dislike this utility. Thank you.
Talal Itani
All my hard drives are in removable trays. When I want a backup of my C
drive, I put a spare into the D drive and do a full copy with Ghost 2003. I
boot it from a floppy and it takes less than 15 minutes to do a full copy of
my disk that has about 25gb of data. I then take out C and install and run
off the copy to make sure it's good and that has never failed me. Easy and
quick and I have a backup of not only my data but the whole disk OS
included.
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Talal Itani
Whomever said:All my hard drives are in removable trays. When I want a backup of my C
drive, I put a spare into the D drive and do a full copy with Ghost 2003.
I boot it from a floppy and it takes less than 15 minutes to do a full
copy of my disk that has about 25gb of data. I then take out C and
install and run off the copy to make sure it's good and that has never
failed me. Easy and quick and I have a backup of not only my data but the
whole disk OS included.
Thank you, but I do not understand the booting from floppy step. Why do you
have to boot from floppy?
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Gene K
The free XP PowerToy "SyncToy" from Microsoft is easy to use and can be
scheduled to backup whenever using the XP schedule tool. From here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx .
Gene K
scheduled to backup whenever using the XP schedule tool. From here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx .
Gene K
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Whomever
Talal Itani said:Thank you, but I do not understand the booting from floppy step. Why do
you have to boot from floppy?
I boot from floppy because my system has one and the Ghost imaging program
is on it. I could also boot from a bootable cd with ghost on it. The
reason for booting from either is if your hard disk crashes you don't have
any other choice if you want to get back to where you where. If you only
backup your data, which by the way is better than nothing, if your hard disk
goes you still have to reinstall the OS and then apply the backups.
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Talal Itani
Gene K said:The free XP PowerToy "SyncToy" from Microsoft is easy to use and can be
scheduled to backup whenever using the XP schedule tool. From here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx .
Gene K
Very interesting tool, thanks. Have you used it to sync everything under
'Documents and Settings' ?
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Tony Luxton
I use Cobian Backup. It can run as an application or as a service under XP.
It can create your backups as a .zip file, so restoring can be done in
Explorer.
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm
HTH Tony.
It can create your backups as a .zip file, so restoring can be done in
Explorer.
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm
HTH Tony.
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Kerry Brown
Talal Itani said:Which utility do you use to backup your data? I have been using NTbackup
,but I dislike this utility. Thank you.
Talal Itani
Think about what data you have. Divide it into categories. Critical, not so
critical, and don't care for example. Devise a backup strategy that saves
each category on a frequency that is appropriate. I use a combination of
methods. Disk imaging, Ntbackup, SyncToy, and just copying files to a
network share. Make sure you have multiple copies of your data on several
different media some of which is stored in a different physical location
from your computer. What works for me may not work for you. Develop your own
plan and stick to it.
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Talal Itani
Kerry Brown said:Think about what data you have. Divide it into categories. Critical, not
so critical, and don't care for example. Devise a backup strategy that
saves each category on a frequency that is appropriate. I use a
combination of methods. Disk imaging, Ntbackup, SyncToy, and just copying
files to a network share. Make sure you have multiple copies of your data
on several different media some of which is stored in a different physical
location from your computer. What works for me may not work for you.
Develop your own plan and stick to it.
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Thank you for this advise. I think what you recommended is what I need.
Today I learned about SyncToy, so I will use it. I will also get a drive
for disk imaging, yet I do not know which software to use yet. About
Ntbackup, I wonder if there is a better tool to accomplish the same thing.
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Kerry Brown
Talal Itani said:Thank you for this advise. I think what you recommended is what I need.
Today I learned about SyncToy, so I will use it. I will also get a drive
for disk imaging, yet I do not know which software to use yet. About
Ntbackup, I wonder if there is a better tool to accomplish the same thing.
I use Acronis True Image for disk imaging. I have some customers who use
NovaBackup. I like NTBackup because it available free on any computer with
Windows 2000, XP and 2003.
http://www.novastor.com/pcbackup/backup/n_backup.html
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Talal Itani
I use Acronis True Image for disk imaging. I have some customers who use
NovaBackup. I like NTBackup because it available free on any computer with
Windows 2000, XP and 2003.
What does Ntbackup give you that SyncToy does not give you?
When you make an image with Acronis, and later a problem happens to the
drive, do you install the drive with the image and boot from it?
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Matt
Probably around 20-30 mins to write the disk and then verify it too,Talal said:How long does it take you to write to one DVD?
because they are backups, I burn them at low speed for greater accuracy.
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Talal Itani
Matt said:Probably around 20-30 mins to write the disk and then verify it too,
because they are backups, I burn them at low speed for greater accuracy.
I see what you mean. Such a long time will surely discourage me from
backing up.
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Kerry Brown
Talal Itani said:What does Ntbackup give you that SyncToy does not give you?
When you make an image with Acronis, and later a problem happens to the
drive, do you install the drive with the image and boot from it?
With NTBackup you can make a backup of the complete system that could be
restored to a new system. The procedure is cumbersome but it works. SyncToy
makes copies of files. A copy is not a backup. It is a convenience if "a"
file or "a few" files get corrupted, deleted, or you merely want an older
version.
With disk images you boot from the recovery media (usually CD) and restore
the image overwriting what is currently on the drive. Note that with with
some imaging programs like True Image you can mount an image in Windows and
copy individual files from it. There is some overlap between disk imaging
and backups with some imaging programs. You can download a trial version
from Acronis and try it your self.
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