Re: Back up software

2015-01-25 Thread Bill
On 24/01/2015 8:03 PM, John Coyle wrote: Like Bob W, I use SyncToy, free from Microsoft, and have done for several years now. Simple, flexible, and very fast.Be careful with the configuration - if you simply set up 'contribute' as the mode, files can be copied one way to the destination,

Back up software

2015-01-24 Thread Bill
I'm playing around with back up software. The one that I was using (Acronis) won't work with the type of disc formatting Windows 7 has created (GPT or some such). I've always just done this sort of thing manually by dragging and dropping from one drive to another, but there must be an easier

Re: Back up software

2015-01-24 Thread Boris Liberman
of using Synctoy in the other direction - no decrypting or decompressing or any crap like that. B On 24 Jan 2015, at 17:02, Bill anotherdrunken...@gmail.com wrote: I'm playing around with back up software. The one that I was using (Acronis) won't work with the type of disc formatting

Re: Back up software

2015-01-24 Thread Mark C
On 1/24/2015 2:15 PM, John wrote: On 1/24/2015 1:48 PM, Mark C wrote: On 1/24/2015 1:41 PM, John wrote: On 1/24/2015 12:00 PM, Bill wrote: I'm playing around with back up software. The one that I was using (Acronis) won't work with the type of disc formatting Windows 7 has created (GPT

Re: Back up software

2015-01-24 Thread Attila Boros
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Bill anotherdrunken...@gmail.com wrote: I'm playing around with back up software. The one that I was using (Acronis) won't work with the type of disc formatting Windows 7 has created (GPT or some such). You can check GPT support here: https://kb.acronis.com

RE: Back up software

2015-01-24 Thread John Coyle
an incremental backup. Setting 'echo' makes it a two way check, which means files essentially archived will be copied back to the source drive - which you may not want! HTH John in Brisbane On 1/24/2015 12:00 PM, Bill wrote: I'm playing around with back up software. The one that I was using

Re: Back up software

2015-01-24 Thread Bob W-PDML
anotherdrunken...@gmail.com wrote: I'm playing around with back up software. The one that I was using (Acronis) won't work with the type of disc formatting Windows 7 has created (GPT or some such). I've always just done this sort of thing manually by dragging and dropping from one drive

Re: Back up software

2015-01-24 Thread Mark C
On 1/24/2015 1:41 PM, John wrote: On 1/24/2015 12:00 PM, Bill wrote: I'm playing around with back up software. The one that I was using (Acronis) won't work with the type of disc formatting Windows 7 has created (GPT or some such). I've always just done this sort of thing manually by dragging

Re: Back up software

2015-01-24 Thread John
On 1/24/2015 1:48 PM, Mark C wrote: On 1/24/2015 1:41 PM, John wrote: On 1/24/2015 12:00 PM, Bill wrote: I'm playing around with back up software. The one that I was using (Acronis) won't work with the type of disc formatting Windows 7 has created (GPT or some such). I've always just done

Re: Back up software

2015-01-24 Thread Mark C
, macros, etc. Mark On 1/24/2015 12:00 PM, Bill wrote: I'm playing around with back up software. The one that I was using (Acronis) won't work with the type of disc formatting Windows 7 has created (GPT or some such). I've always just done this sort of thing manually by dragging and dropping

Re: Back up software

2015-01-24 Thread John
On 1/24/2015 12:00 PM, Bill wrote: I'm playing around with back up software. The one that I was using (Acronis) won't work with the type of disc formatting Windows 7 has created (GPT or some such). I've always just done this sort of thing manually by dragging and dropping from one drive