I don't use a back-up program, in the sense of one that compresses everything, I use SyncToy on a 64-bit W7 box, which copies the files but still has the options for full, incremental etc. copying, which is more flexible than imaging the disk, but slower. It's a bit of MS freeware. Very simple, does its job well. You can test the back up by using the files in the destination just as you would in the source, and if you have to redtore it's just a case of using Synctoy in the other direction - no decrypting or decompressing or any crap like that.
B > On 24 Jan 2015, at 17:02, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm playing around with back up software. The one that I was using (Acronis) > won't work with the type of disc formatting Windows 7 has created (GPT or > some such). > I've always just done this sort of thing manually by dragging and dropping > from one drive to another, but there must be an easier way. > What are some good back up programs that work in a Win7 64 bit environment? > I am not concerned about free, I want something that works easily and doesn't > create it's own type of file as a back up (Acronis, as an example, creates > something with it's own file extension and calls that a back up). > I suspect what I am looking for is something that creates a disc image. > > thanks > > bill > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
