I use Yadis! Backup (free). Does background backups to (n) versions. A couple of minor bugs - Win taskbar won't auto-hide while it is running, and restore filename window doesn't handle long file paths well. It has saved me a few times and also allowed me to backtrack to previous file versions.
Geoff Jenkins _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Bird Sent: Saturday, 10 December 2011 10:36 a.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] Backup software For complete disk backups: I use Drive Snapshot - have used it for 6-7 years and it has saved my hide several times. Complete backup of a PC with 200GB data including Windows runs in about 2 hours. Backup size on USB disk is around 100GB. Backups can be mounted and Windows Explorer used to browse for individual files. Cheap, fast, small and reliable. http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/ Note the web site doesn't make this clear, but it is easy to restore C: from Windows too - it offers to restart and run the restore before windows boots - similar to Windows Update etc Some time ago the best one in the reviews was Acronis disk backup. otherwise Norton Ghost. Key folders Backup If you want to quickly backup a few key folders to a USB drive zipped up then I have one: - wrote just such a program at the request of Christchurch clients who couldn't get at their server for 6 weeks (they had tapes but no server with the tape drive and software and the network supplier also was locked out of their office). Takes from a few seconds to a minute or two depending on size of folders . Program contains ZipKit so there are no external DLL's and its nearly as fast as Pkzip/Winzip. http://www.jbcl.co.nz/JBCLMenu.htm#JBCLHawkOffsiteBackup John Bird Can anybody recommend a good backup system, just for backing up to an external Hdrive? I downloaded a trial version of "Nero BackItUp" but appears poor in UI, slow as a dog and poor setup options. Thanks John _____ _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: [email protected] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe
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