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Best backup solution for me?

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wake6830

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My priorities:
1. Reliability
1. (tie) Ease of use
3. Price
4. Capacity

Basically, I'd like copy my pictures, music and video library (none of which are very large) over to a backup on a regular basis, probably every 2 weeks would be best. What I would like most would be to have some automated program that would just grab those folders and copy them over to the backup, and could recognize what has already been saved there so i don't get multiple copies of the same file. If I have to manually do it myself, it won't be done very often which defeats the purpose I'm after here, so I know I'm not interested in CD/DVD backups. It would have all my pictures (the only thing I'm truely concerned about) on there, so I wouldn't want to worry about them getting corrupted or fucked by some virus or something. I don't want to spend a ton of money, so the less expensive it is the better. As I mentioned before, this isn't a lot of data so I don't need a lot of capacity. Speed is not an issue really, as I'll probably schedule backups to happen in the middle of the night while I'm sleeping. I don't need to share any of the files across a network or anything.

Currently I'm only running one drive in my system, a 250 gig maxtor pata. By christmas, I'd like to replace that with a nice fast SATAII drive. I also have a spare 80gig wd caviar pata drive sitting around that could be used.
 
windows backup sounds like it would work great for you coupled with that 80gb drive you mentioned (if you dont have more data than that). It will do incrementals and can be controlled by the task scheduler to run whenever you want/need it... and the best part is, its free :)

its basically a watered down backup exec. maybe try out a test backup of a few files to see if its what your looking for start>programs>accessories>system tools>backup
 
In addition to the automated copy to a hard drive in a different system, consider less frequent backups to DVD and store them in something like a bank box, such as maybe once a quarter or year for really important stuff. Don't want a fire/flood/etc to take out both of your boxes and your precious data.

High quality DVD+/-Rs have a shelf life of around five years.
 
I use Acronis True Image and I'm very happy with it. One of my system drives failed about three months ago, and I had the machine up and running about 90 minutes after installing the replacement drive.

There are some annoying bugs, but their support forum is decent. I haven't installed the 9.0 upgrade yet.
 
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