best software to backup pc please

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Can you please give me your opinions as to which is the best software to backup my pc with please

Jody
 
acronis true image for doing a full pc backup (can save it as an 'image' file to say an external hard drive, or another pc on the network, or to multiple cd, dvd's)

costs about £25 i think, but its well worth it. if you backup your pc after a new windows install + drivers etc, xp image will be about 1gb max, vista about 4gb (both would fit on a dvd)

you use the acronis cd to boot, and can make the image without having to go into windows, and it has a windows based one if you want to schedule backups



for file backups only, like my documents, i'd use synctoy, made by microsoft, and only copies newly update files upon the 2nd time of running it, easy to use, and totally free :)
 
bledd. said:
acronis true image for doing a full pc backup (can save it as an 'image' file to say an external hard drive, or another pc on the network, or to multiple cd, dvd's)

costs about £25 i think, but its well worth it. if you backup your pc after a new windows install + drivers etc, xp image will be about 1gb max, vista about 4gb (both would fit on a dvd)

you use the acronis cd to boot, and can make the image without having to go into windows, and it has a windows based one if you want to schedule backups



for file backups only, like my documents, i'd use synctoy, made by microsoft, and only copies newly update files upon the 2nd time of running it, easy to use, and totally free :)
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great, ill take a look at them now, many thanks
 
I Was about to buy Acronis yesterday and looked at the customers reviews on a well known site. It gets well slagged off, 2 stars only. Don't know what backup software to buy now.

Mick
 
mick4545:

I have used a number of Backup (Imaging) programs, and Acronis True Image is the best of the bunch (I reckon)...the present version of ATI Home is 11...

If you have either a Seagate or Maxtor HDD in your system (including an attached external - USB or eSATA) you could use DiskWizard or MaxBlast (which are free but is NOT compatable with Vista) which is basically Acronis True Image Home 10 with a couple of minor features removed. :)
 
Another thumbs up for trueimage here - it saved my bacon last night when I did a complete reinstall of vista 64 from an image. Whole operation was completely painless and took less than 10 mins. Great software nobody should be without IMO.
 
mick4545 said:
I Was about to buy Acronis yesterday and looked at the customers reviews on a well known site. It gets well slagged off, 2 stars only. Don't know what backup software to buy now.

Mick
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I use Acronis True Image and its great.

I got it on recomendation from people here, I guess you need to ask your self who you trust more, random reviews or people on here. :)
 
neil_g said:
if its just files youre backup up, you could use a batch file.. its free..

oldskool rulz :p
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haha, I do the same. Got a bunch of folders arranged to keep my important files in. And simply schedule a batch file to use robocopy and backup my files to an ext hdd.

Easy and hassle free :D
 
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rctneil said:
Hey, How woudl that be done then as I know nothing about batch filkes but have used robocopy before.
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robocopy D:\MOVIES E:\Backup /S /E /COPYALL /NP /R:10 /W:30 /LOG:D:\LOGFILE.txt
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That's a sample batch file that works with robocopy... take a look at it... some minor editing can make it work for you too.
 
XP - acronis over ghost any day of the week. However for some reason I always seemed to have a minor niggle here and there (probably me)

However (and you don't say the os) as I now use Vista 64 Ultimate I'm using the built in one which can be used to back up the whole drive/parts of etc. It can be stored on an external hard drive or dvd(s) and you can restore it from the original install disk of Vista (just boot from disk and click restore bit, combined with vista's ability to change serial numbers its good for businesses with identical systems too:)) - I've done this a couple of times now and it works a treat. It might not be as efficient as acronis but its a damn site easier and it works well in my experience (especially if you move your docs etc to a seperate partition/drive), currently got my os backed up while waiting on my graphics rma - saved the ati setup while using an nvidia one and will just restore when I get it back :)
 
Use xxcopy myself. Similar to robocopy in that it needs you to understand pathnames and simple commands e.g "xxcopy c:\my stuff f:\my stuff". There's a downloadable gui somewhere, but i've not used that. For imaging my system, I use DriveImage XML
 
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