Re: [Dorset] OT: Backup Software for Windows
Hi Terry, I use Acronis for our installations and at home on my PC. The home version is relatively cheap and fairly easy to set up; once it's running on a schedule you can forget about it. Kind Regards, Tony Payne Senior Systems Engineer Siemens plc Industry Sector Mobility Division Traffic Solutions Sopers Lane Poole Dorset, BH17 7ER Tel.: +44 1202 782076 Fax: +44 1202 782032 Mobile: +44 7808 823806 tony.pa...@siemens.com www.siemens.co.uk/traffic Siemens plc registered office: Faraday House, Sir William Siemens Square, Frimley, Camberley, GU16 8QD. Registered no: 727817, England This communication contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the addressee. If you are not the addressee please note that any distribution, reproduction, copying, publication or use of this communication or the information in it is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact us immediately and also delete the communication from your computer. -Original Message- From: dorset-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:dorset-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Dominic Lonsdale Sent: 05 March 2012 22:00 To: dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk Subject: Re: [Dorset] OT: Backup Software for Windows I am using Backup , running on Ubuntu, to a Verbatim drive plugged into a USB socket. It is clever enough to delay if the drive is not plugged in and then to do the backup (automatically) when the drive is eventually plugged in at some later time. Regards, Nic On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 21:40 +, Terry Coles wrote: Hi, My niece has just bought herself an external USB drive so she can backup her files. She doesn't know much about it, apart from that she needs to take backups (a huge step forward I think). She's asked me for a good backup program. I used to use a good one on my daughter's computer, but when her hard disk failed, it turned out that she hadn't been running it anyway and she lost everything (including the name of the backup software I'd installed). As a result I can't find the darn thing. So I'm looking for a good Windows Backup program than does incremental backups (not sync) to external drives. My niece is quite switched on, so I'm sure she'll get the hang of it without too much difficulty, but (like anything) if using it is too clunky she'll stop. It needs therefore to be reasonably easy to get working for a lay person and also to get data back when needed. Any ideas? -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-03-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-03-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
[Dorset] OT: Backup Software for Windows
Hi, My niece has just bought herself an external USB drive so she can backup her files. She doesn't know much about it, apart from that she needs to take backups (a huge step forward I think). She's asked me for a good backup program. I used to use a good one on my daughter's computer, but when her hard disk failed, it turned out that she hadn't been running it anyway and she lost everything (including the name of the backup software I'd installed). As a result I can't find the darn thing. So I'm looking for a good Windows Backup program than does incremental backups (not sync) to external drives. My niece is quite switched on, so I'm sure she'll get the hang of it without too much difficulty, but (like anything) if using it is too clunky she'll stop. It needs therefore to be reasonably easy to get working for a lay person and also to get data back when needed. Any ideas? -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-03-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] OT: Backup Software for Windows
On 05/03/12 21:40, Terry Coles wrote: So I'm looking for a good Windows Backup program than does incremental backups (not sync) to external drives. My niece is quite switched on, so I'm sure she'll get the hang of it without too much difficulty, but (like anything) if using it is too clunky she'll stop. It needs therefore to be reasonably easy to get working for a lay person and also to get data back when needed. Any ideas? Cygwin + rdiff-backup? Can be run on demand from a shortcut or on a schedule. IIRC, the syntax to create a backup is pretty much 'rdiff-backup $source $destination'. In case you haven't used rdiff-backup before, you'll end up with a copy of the files which can be recovered easily using regular file-system tools (the sync method you said you didn't want ;) ) but as well as that you can recover to any point at which you created a backup, as it stores diffs or similar. Of course as it never deletes anything automatically the disk might run out of space if there are lots of changes, but it is possible to remove older backups somehow. I don't know how as I haven't run out of space on my rdiff-backup target yet so I haven't needed to look up how to do it. :) -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-03-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] OT: Backup Software for Windows
I am using Backup , running on Ubuntu, to a Verbatim drive plugged into a USB socket. It is clever enough to delay if the drive is not plugged in and then to do the backup (automatically) when the drive is eventually plugged in at some later time. Regards, Nic On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 21:40 +, Terry Coles wrote: Hi, My niece has just bought herself an external USB drive so she can backup her files. She doesn't know much about it, apart from that she needs to take backups (a huge step forward I think). She's asked me for a good backup program. I used to use a good one on my daughter's computer, but when her hard disk failed, it turned out that she hadn't been running it anyway and she lost everything (including the name of the backup software I'd installed). As a result I can't find the darn thing. So I'm looking for a good Windows Backup program than does incremental backups (not sync) to external drives. My niece is quite switched on, so I'm sure she'll get the hang of it without too much difficulty, but (like anything) if using it is too clunky she'll stop. It needs therefore to be reasonably easy to get working for a lay person and also to get data back when needed. Any ideas? -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-03-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] OT: Backup Software for Windows
I use an online service called backblaZe $50 a year . Works well just sits in the background .. Free email restore for a smaller restotes and then its a USB or hd delivery if u need more Others are uk based and I'd suggest this over a local drive which can also die on u On Monday, 5 March 2012, Andrew Morgan zil...@ziltro.com wrote: On 05/03/12 21:40, Terry Coles wrote: So I'm looking for a good Windows Backup program than does incremental backups (not sync) to external drives. My niece is quite switched on, so I'm sure she'll get the hang of it without too much difficulty, but (like anything) if using it is too clunky she'll stop. It needs therefore to be reasonably easy to get working for a lay person and also to get data back when needed. Any ideas? Cygwin + rdiff-backup? Can be run on demand from a shortcut or on a schedule. IIRC, the syntax to create a backup is pretty much 'rdiff-backup $source $destination'. In case you haven't used rdiff-backup before, you'll end up with a copy of the files which can be recovered easily using regular file-system tools (the sync method you said you didn't want ;) ) but as well as that you can recover to any point at which you created a backup, as it stores diffs or similar. Of course as it never deletes anything automatically the disk might run out of space if there are lots of changes, but it is possible to remove older backups somehow. I don't know how as I haven't run out of space on my rdiff-backup target yet so I haven't needed to look up how to do it. :) -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-03-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- -- Martin Hepworth Oxford, UK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-03-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
