How many hundreds of millions have been spent by people on backup software
that doesn't work? Even the free stuff is crap! Get another hardrive and a
USB thumb drive to duplicate your irreplaceable data. Backup software is
just another scam. The federal government itself can't backup
irreplaceable historical data because old formats die and fail to get
transfered to new formats. History is being lost as we speak. Multiple
copies work and that is the best way to keep from losing it all.
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:58:32 -0600, FORC5 <[email protected]> wrote:
I love ghost but I have never been able to get it to work with Vista or
Windows 7 and on occasion will not see a SATA drive. At least my version
(8)
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At 05:56 PM 3/9/2011, Bobby Heid Poked the stick with:
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
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