I like Ghost. ;-) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 12:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Backup Software
There is no other choice to make a decent backup than to save your irreplaceable data and just re-install. Backup software sucks! Backup tape drives suck! Norton Ghost sucks! There is no reliable method to backup your hardrive other than to make an ISO of it and store it on an other hardrive. Backups just plain suck period because the computer world changes too fast and operating systems change too fast to make a reliable method that has legs! Get a second or third hardrive and a couple of 8 or 16 gig thumb drives and save your irreplaceable info and just accept it. I've been trying to find a reliable method to backup my data for years. I once spent a considerable sum of money on a tape drive that would not work period. Duplication of irreplaceble data is the only method that I've found that saves my ass. I once had a daily log that I had updated religiously for years and lost it all because my hardrive failed. That data can never be replaced. It is gone forever. Still pissed about that! LOL On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:12:49 -0600, Steve Tomporowski <[email protected]> wrote: > I recently picked up a 3TB GoFlex drive and the Memeo 'free' 'instant > backup' software made me puke. Crippleware always affects me that way. > How is it crippleware? It will only backup drive C, no other drive or > folder on another drive, unless, of course, you pony up the bucks for > the 'advanced version'. Also the Memeo doesn't seem to be incremental > or differential, as long as it has stored a file by that name, it don't > care, make another full backup! > [end rant] > > The real purpose is to find out what's out there for backup software > (preferably free) which can do incremental and work with a USB drive. > Gizmo has got a couple of recommendations, but it would be great to hear > from someone with experience. And, yes, between TV, Movies and Music, > 3TB would just about do it. Yeah, I know I'm on the low end....;-) > > Thanks....Steve -- Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
