Guest Daniel Royer Posted August 30, 2008 Posted August 30, 2008 Can somebody point me to a good simple backup program (to an external HD), free if possible. But if it's necessary to pay ... Daniel -- _________________________________ Daniel Royer University of Geneva daniel at royer dot ch
Guest John McGaw Posted August 30, 2008 Posted August 30, 2008 Re: Backup program Daniel Royer wrote: > Can somebody point me to a good simple backup program (to an external > HD), free if possible. But if it's necessary to pay ... > > Daniel There are a load of them out there but I find that Cobian Backup works well for me. http://www.cobian.se John McGaw http://johnmcgaw.com
Guest JS Posted August 30, 2008 Posted August 30, 2008 Re: Backup program Norton Ghost (has a 30 day trial but you can not create a Bootable Restore CD AFAK) http://www.symantec.com/norton/products/overview.jsp?pcid=br&pvid=ghost14 True Image (has a 15 day trial version available, Trail version can create Restore CD, but I have not verified this yet) http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/ JS http://www.pagestart.com "Daniel Royer" <daniel@royer.ch> wrote in message news:%235$zEZrCJHA.3348@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Can somebody point me to a good simple backup program (to an external HD), > free if possible. But if it's necessary to pay ... > > Daniel > -- > _________________________________ > Daniel Royer > University of Geneva > daniel at royer dot ch
Guest dev328 Posted August 30, 2008 Posted August 30, 2008 Re: Backup program What about the back-up utility in XP under System Tools? Doesn t that work well to back up to an external HD? "John McGaw" wrote: > Daniel Royer wrote: > > Can somebody point me to a good simple backup program (to an external > > HD), free if possible. But if it's necessary to pay ... > > > > Daniel > > There are a load of them out there but I find that Cobian Backup works well > for me. http://www.cobian.se > > John McGaw > http://johnmcgaw.com >
Guest Stephen Harris Posted August 30, 2008 Posted August 30, 2008 Re: Backup program Daniel Royer wrote: > Can somebody point me to a good simple backup program (to an external > HD), free if possible. But if it's necessary to pay ... > > Daniel Well, as long as the second drive is as large as the first, why not clone all of drive one to drive two? The software for that is usually free from the manufacturer of drive one. Drive one is set as master and drive two as slave with jumpers. The jumper settings are on the back of the hard drives or you can download a user guide from the drive manufacturer. If drive one dies or gets infected with a rootkit, then you can switch the jumper settings and make drive two Master and drive one the Slave. Boot from drive two which has become the Master and then clone drive two back to drive one. That will fix most malware problems, everything is overwritten including the MBR (make sure you clone the MBR too, if given a choice). So I'd get the User Guide from both manufacturers plus their cloning software (which is part of the free formatting software), and put it in a folder called C:\Drives, which will get copied back and forth between the drives. I think the User Guide is helpful for jumper settings, because it avoids having to take out the old hard drive in order to find out the different jumper settings (not using cable select). You can do it with tweezers. Getting the drivers and already installed applications is the hard part of a systemic clone restore. You can use XP backup which comes with WinXP Pro, or if you have WinXP Home, I think it can be installed from the ValueAdd foler on the cd. It is easier then to make small backups of your email and ..html bookmarks or favorites. I use Firefox just because it has a utility called Moz Backup which works great for Firefox, and Thunderbird email which is about equal to Outlook Express. But you can customize the size of File Edit, View, etc. menu and the dropdown menulist, by making it larger and bolder if anyone using the computer is visually impaired. You can find out what kind of hard drive you have (the manufacturer) by looking in Device Manager, then copy and paste into a Google search. You can also look in the Bios when the computer boots up to find out what the drive is named. For incremental backups a lot of people use Acronis True Image, which is $50, so maybe that can wait and be your Christmas present to WallE Junior.
Guest GregNga Posted August 30, 2008 Posted August 30, 2008 RE: Backup program I have Acronis I think it is an excellent tool. It is worth paying for. "Daniel Royer" wrote: > Can somebody point me to a good simple backup program (to an external > HD), free if possible. But if it's necessary to pay ... > > Daniel > -- > _________________________________ > Daniel Royer > University of Geneva > daniel at royer dot ch >
Guest Daniel Royer Posted September 2, 2008 Posted September 2, 2008 Re: Backup program Daniel Royer wrote: > Can somebody point me to a good simple backup program (to an external > HD), free if possible. But if it's necessary to pay ... > > Daniel thanks for all the suggestions. I've tried them all (almost). The problem seems to lie within my external HD, as, with each backup program I get the same message: "write delayed failed", and there is only gibberish on the HD. Daniel
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