best backup software??

something_totally_different · 26 Feb 2008 at 13:19

what do you use the backup your drives ?

Memphis · 26 Feb 2008 at 13:21

Acronis TrueImage.

Cosimo · 26 Feb 2008 at 13:25

Memphis said:
Acronis TrueImage.

I’ll second that.

Outcast · 26 Feb 2008 at 13:26

Ping

RJC · 26 Feb 2008 at 13:27

Acronis TrueImage.

Furton · 26 Feb 2008 at 13:38

The one built into Vista is pretty decent, coupled with SyncToy (free) it's a very nice solution.

Burnsy2023 · 26 Feb 2008 at 13:48

Symantec Backup Exec 11d.

Burnsy

something_totally_different · 26 Feb 2008 at 13:52

Furton said:
The one built into Vista is pretty decent, coupled with SyncToy (free) it's a very nice solution.

we are not on winblows vista here at work im afraid. I will be come Saturday though.

doggo · 26 Feb 2008 at 14:10

I'll agree with Acronis True Image, it's been fine for me.

Admiral Huddy · 26 Feb 2008 at 14:11

Syncbackse

rpstewart · 26 Feb 2008 at 14:16

Manually to DVD once I've got 4Gb of related material. Paths containing stuff which hasn't gone to DVD get copied to an external drive using ViceVersa Pro (similar to synctoy).

bledd · 26 Feb 2008 at 14:48

robocopy & synctoy for files/folders

acronis true image live cd, after windows is installed

allday247 · 26 Feb 2008 at 15:05

Been using Acronis TrueImage here. Recommended

J.T · 26 Feb 2008 at 16:29

allday247 said:
Been using Acronis TrueImage here. Recommended

X2, great bit of software.

jeffa123 · 26 Feb 2008 at 18:34

I agree with that on true image. It has a good User State management console and a quick restore function if you have the space on the boot drive to use that part. Also with the latest release you can use a Try&Decide function without mucking up any of your existing settings. The Try & Decide allows you to install and try software virtually. The only Bug being once you have rebooted you have to start all over again.
Windows Backup is okay if you have Ultimate then you can use the Image backup mechanism, on any other version you have basic file backup. Not exactly what I would be resorting to if it was just on Premium or Basic.
Pressing F11 on startup brings up Acronis recovery console and you can do a recovery on the fly.

Sm1ffy · 26 Feb 2008 at 18:38

Yet another for Acronis TrueImage

gareth170 · 26 Feb 2008 at 18:53

Acronis True Image 11 the best backup software

marc2003 · 26 Feb 2008 at 18:57

i use ntbackup.exe (built into xp but i've copied the files and am using it in vista) for folder/file backup. i don't bother with imaging my OS partition.

allday247 · 27 Feb 2008 at 11:24

jeffa123 said:
Pressing F11 on startup brings up Acronis recovery console and you can do a recovery on the fly.

Question:
Haven't worked out the full ins and outs of TrueImage yet but is this only available when using the quick restore function? Asking because my Disk images are on a different partition.