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What's the best back-up software?

ZedroZedro Registered User regular
edited October 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
I just bought and external hard drive in case the worst happens.

What's the best back-up software out there? I want something that will let me copy specific types of files with relative ease.

Thanks.

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  • KoekjesKoekjes Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Norton Ghost it supposed to be one of the best available.

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  • devoirdevoir Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    You can just use ntbackup with scheduled tasks to do specific file type copies to external hard drives. It's free and built into Windows.

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  • kevbotkevbot Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I use Cobian backup 8 for backing up my home servers onto my desktop... pretty easy to use and runs even when logged off. At work I use rsync and cron.

    http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

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  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    sorry to semi-necropost in a thread, but i recently picked up an external drive for backup purposes as well and was wondering what software options existed for backups.

    i'd ideally like a software package that can look at an existing internal drive/file system, make a backup of the drive/file system to the external, and then "sync" the external's backed up data with the source data at set intervals. in other words, i'm looking for something that can detect changes to the source data and just adjust the externally backed up information to match.

    is there anything like that? are there any good freeware utilities that do this?

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  • whuppinswhuppins Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    As has been mentioned, Windows Backup (or ntbackup or just plain Backup in Win XP+) is free, easy to use, installed by default, and can do all the stuff you mentioned. Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Backup. Incremental backups, scheduling, all that crap. It's really very good.

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  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    The biggest advantage of Norton ghost is you can make a bootable image file

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  • iTunesIsEviliTunesIsEvil Cornfield? Cornfield.Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    I've used Acronis TrueImage for a while now both on my home machines, my workstation @ work, and we've used it on a couple of production servers as well. It's worked very well for me. Incremental backups, save to a myriad of locations (NAS, FTP, DVD, external drive, etc), bootable discs if you need 'em, scheduling, etc.

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