On Tuesday 03 June 2003 08:34 am, Ryan Bowman wrote: > Thanks to all those that asisited me in my great despair. Using a > combination of tools mention I was able to fix it and all is well in zion > now. > So this incident inspired me to backup my data, something I don't do very > often, if ever. So do you know that Windows XP Home Edition by default > DOES NOT install the backup utilities? Now, I must admit, I like XP, it's > the best Windows OS i've ever used, and it's been stable and I've had no > problems with it but this just seems incredibly stupid. What kind of > company sells an operating system that you can't even backup your data, > without figuring out how to install the proper utilities, which I haven't > yet, and I probably won't, I'll go find some free software to do it, or > just use tar. Maybe normal users don't need to backup their stuff that > often, but it seems to me that the backup utilities should be installed by > default. > Anyway, that's my rag on windows. > Anyone know of good, reliable, free (as in beer, I mean, pepsi), backup > program for windows? > Ryan
Is it "dual" boot? On my desktop, I just wrote a shell script that picks out all the files I want too keep on /mnt/windows and makes a tar.gz file that saves on my Linux partition. Then I can move it where ever I want. -- Jacob Albretsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
