XP Home Backup utility

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What is the consensus on the value of the backup utility that comes on the
XP Home install cd? It apparently has to be installed manually. It seems
to me that Microsoft does not have a great reputation about some of its
utilities so there are probably better 3rd party backup programs out there.
Thanks.
Bob
 
rdbr said:
What is the consensus on the value of the backup utility that comes on the
XP Home install cd? It apparently has to be installed manually. It seems
to me that Microsoft does not have a great reputation about some of its
utilities so there are probably better 3rd party backup programs out there.
Thanks.
Bob
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It depends on what you want to do. If you only want to backup your own data
then XP backup is fine. The only snag is that you cannot backup direct to a
CD.
You have to back up to a file on your hard disc and then copy to the CD.
This does not allow for a differential Backup for adding changed files only.
So your backup has to be a complete one every time.
If you can add packet writing this would allow writing direct to the CD and
I am at present investigating this possibility.
There are numerous programmes on the market but I find they are all mainly
concerned with a complete system reinstall
I was given a backup programme with my Dell PC called "Record me now" from
Sonic which is also a simple backup programme but it also requires packet
writing to write directly to a CD
Hope this does not confuse you further
Regards
Blair
 
NTbackup will write directly to a CD if packet writing software is
installed, however, it will not span CDs so you are limited to just the
amount that will fit on one. So in essence it's no good for that purpose.
 
Indeed you might consider using a 3rd party backup program, I suggest you
try Backup4all, as I've seen you're interested in a program that has CD/DVD
writing support (using packet writing ) so this one has these features, I
mean support for CD and included packet writing software. The link is
http://www.backup4all.com/download.php so you might want to check it out.
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Regards,
Claudiu Spulber
http://www.backup4all.com
 
rdbr said:
What is the consensus on the value of the backup utility that comes on the
XP Home install cd? It apparently has to be installed manually
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In my view that was provided in XP Pro for the benefit of those coming
from NT who had been using it previously for tape backup. It is tape
oriented, and does not work with CD as a backup medium (at least beyond
what will fit on a single disk - and you have to get in 'packet writing'
CD software to do even that).

Unless you have a tape drive I would go look elsewhere
 
Hilary Karp said:
NTbackup will write directly to a CD if packet writing software is
installed, however, it will not span CDs so you are limited to just the
amount that will fit on one. So in essence it's no good for that purpose.
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IMO packet writing is handy for temporary backup jobs, but I would never
advocate it's use for long term archival records.

rgds
Li'l Roberto
 
Try v2i protector from symantec, I think it is very good. Incremental ghost
backups
 
Try v2i protector from symantec, I think it is very good. Incremental ghost
backups
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Do you mean Norton Ghost ? If not what is the package called?
Regards
Blair
 
It's Drive Image 7, formerly from PowerQuest, now owned by Symantec but
different than Ghost. It works well, is fast, the installation CD is
bootable and forms the basis for their "Recovery Environment". I use it
to backup to an external USB 2 hard drive and occasionally burn an image
to DVD. My DVD burner is not compatible with DI7 so it won't create the
drive image directly on the DVD. I create it first on the hard drive
then burn to DVD, but the restore of these images from the backup DVD
works fine using the DI CD as a boot CD.
 
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Hilary Karp said:
It's Drive Image 7, formerly from PowerQuest, now owned by Symantec
but different than Ghost.
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No, actually it's not. As (e-mail address removed) said, the product
is called "V2i Protector." Symantec now has three somewhat
similar products: Ghost, Drive Image, and V2i Protector. I've
been experimenting with V2i Protector here, but haven't yet
decided whether I like it.
 
ahh ok..thanks for the info.

Ken said:
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No, actually it's not. As (e-mail address removed) said, the product
is called "V2i Protector." Symantec now has three somewhat
similar products: Ghost, Drive Image, and V2i Protector. I've
been experimenting with V2i Protector here, but haven't yet
decided whether I like it.
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No the product does Ghost like (clone backups) to a compressed image file
that can be browsed. You can schedule etc.

I have two hard disk drives, i use this product to image my c drive to a v2i
backup on my other drive.

If all fails there is the PQRE (Powerquest Recovery Environmnt) a bootbale
CD which allows you to do a full restore

It does bare bones recovery, we are using it on some specific servers at
work.
 
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