Hi Terry, I use Acronis for our installations and at home on my PC. The home version is relatively cheap and fairly easy to set up; once it's running on a schedule you can forget about it.
Kind Regards, Tony Payne Senior Systems Engineer Siemens plc Industry Sector Mobility Division Traffic Solutions Sopers Lane Poole Dorset, BH17 7ER Tel.: +44 1202 782076 Fax: +44 1202 782032 Mobile: +44 7808 823806 [email protected] www.siemens.co.uk/traffic Siemens plc registered office: Faraday House, Sir William Siemens Square, Frimley, Camberley, GU16 8QD. Registered no: 727817, England This communication contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the addressee. If you are not the addressee please note that any distribution, reproduction, copying, publication or use of this communication or the information in it is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact us immediately and also delete the communication from your computer. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dominic Lonsdale Sent: 05 March 2012 22:00 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dorset] OT: Backup Software for Windows I am using Backup , running on Ubuntu, to a Verbatim drive plugged into a USB socket. It is clever enough to delay if the drive is not plugged in and then to do the backup (automatically) when the drive is eventually plugged in at some later time. Regards, Nic On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 21:40 +0000, Terry Coles wrote: > Hi, > > My niece has just bought herself an external USB drive so she can backup her > files. She doesn't know much about it, apart from that she needs to take > backups (a huge step forward I think). She's asked me for a good backup > program. > > I used to use a good one on my daughter's computer, but when her hard disk > failed, it turned out that she hadn't been running it anyway and she lost > everything (including the name of the backup software I'd installed). As a > result I can't find the darn thing. > > So I'm looking for a good Windows Backup program than does incremental > backups > (not sync) to external drives. My niece is quite switched on, so I'm sure > she'll get the hang of it without too much difficulty, but (like anything) if > using it is too clunky she'll stop. It needs therefore to be reasonably easy > to get working for a lay person and also to get data back when needed. > > Any ideas? > -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-03-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-03-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
