Yup Drive Snapshot is really good - extremely plain however. If you are
wanting lots of bells and whistles then Acronis True Image is a good
option - but I've found it a pain to get the configuration correct for
nightly backups (at least in as much as to get it to remove the old
backups before the drive runs out of space). I've also herd of people
using Shadow Protect very well for continuous backups.
I've only ever done a complete restore once - and that was with Drive
Snapshot, which worked fine. I've had to pull a file out many-a-time
and both TrueImage and Snapshot work great at this.
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On 10/12/2011 10:36 a.m., John Bird wrote:
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
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