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Nice backup program?

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shadowwyvern

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A while ago I bought a ton od DVDs for backup, and ended up using about half of them. However, the process was VERY slow (made rar archives of directories, split them into 4.5GB chunks), required me to half at least a much free space as I was backing up, and has no way of doing an incremental backup. I still have about 50 DVDs left, and want to do a proper, incremental backup. What are some software options for this? Are DVDs really the best way for me to back up all of my stuff (I have about 430GB right now)?
 
Im completely sold on Acronis True Image 9.1

It replaces system restore.
It is a complete backup solution
It can backup to DVD's or network drives
Once you make a Acronis Bootdisk as long as you have access to your backup files [intact and not corrupted] you and pretty much guarentee that you will get your data back.
No dependancies on windows for restoring your backup.

The corporate edition with an add on snapin can restore your computer to Different hardware. We botched a computer here and I have the previously created backup. I literally built a new machine with a generation of different hardware. Used Acronis corp ed trueimage with the universal restore snapin and in 2 hours we were back up and running with all programs and settings intact!

Awesome software : )

Mackintire
 
shadowwyvern said:
A while ago I bought a ton od DVDs for backup, and ended up using about half of them. However, the process was VERY slow (made rar archives of directories, split them into 4.5GB chunks), required me to half at least a much free space as I was backing up, and has no way of doing an incremental backup. I still have about 50 DVDs left, and want to do a proper, incremental backup. What are some software options for this? Are DVDs really the best way for me to back up all of my stuff (I have about 430GB right now)?
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Personally, I would buy an external 500GB SATA drive, and do an xcopy. Unplug the drive after you're done, and presto, easy backup/recovery. You can also set it to not overwrite any file that's not changed, and thusly speed up your backup process. If you're cheap, like me, just get the drive, and not the enclosure. Plug it in to an extra SATA port on your mobo, and transfer at quicker speeds.
 
If you wanted to have copy of your data. I d agree. I d also agree that your idea is inexpensive.
However since I have experienced, loss of hard drives....power supplies...motherboards.. and all kinds of other various stuff I m going to have to sick to my guns and suggest Acronis.

A few problems with your method.

One full backup is not a problem, how about 2 a month with incrementals once a week. How about have to go and do a backup??? Not only does the take time but slows the crap out of your computer.

Acronis's software lets you do a volume shadow copy at low priorty at times you specify. You don t even have to lift a finger. Overwrite old backups, you bet. Option to restore to other hardware even if you didn t purchase that option. buy it later and you can still recover your data without reinstalling.

Seriously.... It takes me atleast 20 hours to reinstall everything and reconfigure everything to my own satisfaction. Acronis has taken that to 40 minutes MAX and that is including the restore to other hardware option which prompts you for drivers and such..... but please dont believe me go download the 30 day trial. Heck it even uninstalls cleanly.....
No more norton ghost....thank god.

Later,

Mackintire
 
I really like True Image, too, but I'd stop short of calling it "Awesome Software". It's very buggy; the 9.0 release was essentially stillborn. There's several features which are interesting but either not there or really wobbly.

You can cruise their support forums for more details.

One of the biggest issues for me is that performance absolutely sucks over the network. I have a gigabit LAN that's well-tuned and cared for; I can copy from one machine to another at 70 megabits/second. But Acronis is about 5 times slower over the network than it is writing an image to a local drive.

All that said, I haven't found anything that's much better (but I'd love a referral!) and use it to back up all my rigs at home.
 
Used the network portion over gigabit today. And I agree it is slow.

I m using the home ed of true image 9.0 on my home machine and the new 9.1 corp version at work. Unlike ghost It has yet to fubar any of our computers.

Then again I have not been using more of the expansive abilities listed... I ll check out the forum in the meantime.

Thanks,

Mackintire
 
I use Norton Ghost to make a backup of my OS drive, and store the ~30gb file on another hard drive. If my OS drive dies, I got the backup right there on the other drive. If the other drive dies, I can make another backup. Hopefully they won't die at the same time :)

With Norton Ghost you can also split up the backup into different parts. So you could set the size of each part to 4gb for your DVD's, or even 700mb for CD's. or 1mb for floppies ;)


You can probably do the same stuff with True Image.. I haven't tried it yet though.
 
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