Just about any backup program will do what you want. Ghost, Acronis,
even windows vista native backup. You need to let Ghost, or Windows
scheduler, know the administrative password so it can write to your USB drive.
But why not keep it simple. Use Winzip 11, or any other zip program
from the command line. Write a simple batch file zipping up the drive
or folder, and dropping it in the drive/folder of your your choice.
Use Windows scheduler to run it every whenever. Windows scheduler
will ask you for the required administrative password so it will have
no problem writing it to your USB drive or any where else. You can
even do this to a network drive.
A zip file using portable compression is universal, so any zip
program will be able to open the zip. If you wish to secure the zip
file, Winzip 11 will allow you to encrypt with AES 256bit . And
Winzip 11 now has a window browser that makes for easy recovery of a
single file.
This approach doesn't have a fancy UI, and it isn't complicated ,or
full of administrative features, but it uses the flagship of
compression algorithms, it isn't tied to any one program, and it is
simple and bullet proof.
At 12:52 PM 7/12/2008, you wrote:
I had posted this before but didn't get any responses. I have a
networked external hdd. Myworldbook, 1 TB.
I can see the drive and backup to or from it. But I want a good
program to do that automatically. The Mionet that came with it is horrible.
I tried the trial version of Norton Ghost but can't get it to see
the hdd. It keeps asking for a pw, I have tried all I know that
would be related to the network, but no go.
Any suggestions?
I want my laptop backed up each day as I do all my work and billing
on it. It would be a big plus if it would back up the entire laptop
systems and all so if could be a total restore from the network
drive or am I asking to much?
Any help appreciated.
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