Philip TAYLOR wrote:
chicagofan wrote:
Also, I have a new GoFlex external drive and I'm trying to decide what
is the simplest backup solution for essentially a novice.
The best software I have identified for backing up my
Seamonkey data is Easeus Todo Backup Free :
http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/
Completely configurable, works 100% reliably, and on the only
occasion I have needed to recover a file, worked like a charm
(took about 2 minutes to complete).
Philip Taylor
I also use EaseUS products, free and paid for. They work great. Just
did a drive/system restore with EaseUS TODO Backup and it worked like a
charm.
As for backup stratgies, I do a daily drive image of the boot disk (C:\)
and the Programs and Data drive (in my case, G:\). I also so daily
backups of my Mozilla products profiles (just for ease of restoration of
individual files). I also do separate backups of various data folders,
for the same reason.
As Chris said, there is little point to doing a backup of the Mozilla
products' install folders. You can always download them and install
them. It's the data/profile folders that you need to backup. Regularly.
There's a lot more to backup strategies. Do a Google search and educate
yourself.
BTW, I always do FULL backups, not incremental or differential. I keep
at least two days of backups on an external drive then periodically
delete the backups I don't need to save drive space.
I use EaseUS' TODO Backup Workstation to manage backups of all the
computers on my LAN. Essentially, you install TODO Backup on all
clients and Workstation on one main (server) computer. On the main
computer you can them use Workstation to backup whatever you want on all
the client computers. Again, works like a charm.
FWIW, I also in the past have used Acronis True Image Home sw for
backup. they have totally screwed it up over several generations and I
stopped buying updates to it and do not use it at all anymore. it used
to be almost an industry standard but the (Russian) company has totally
lost track. I wouldn't recommend it to my worst enemy. It's a dog.
And I love dogs. :-)
--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net/
The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a
replacement.
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