I like Acronis aso, but I have been using Norton Ghost for years. It's fast, let's me get files out of a backup, and has saved my butt many times.
I am sure Acronis probably does it also, but on one of my drives, I Ghost the files (not a drive image) because I do not need several generations of backups for it, I just want a separate backup for them. I backup to another drive and then have a synch program synch the backup directory to an external ESata drive. So I have backups in two locations. Then every few weeks, I back off one of the latest full backup images to DVD. Bobby -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 3:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Best backup software and method? I'd have to second that recommendation for Acronis. Been backing up to a secondary hdd for years. Acronis has served me well and saved me on I don't know how many occasions. Speaking of backups, does anyone have any familiarity with Apple Time Machine? My son picked up a new MacBook Pro with a 500G drive. His old MacBook had a 120G drive. He has a supported Verbatim drive 120G I believe, that he used for bsckup on the old machine. He wants to use that 120G drive to backup his new laptop. He's only used 30G out of 500G. So in theory I'd think it would work. But Apple says no. Can't backup a larger drive to a smaller drive. Anyone have any experiences with this? Thoughts or insight? Bill Sent from my iPhone
