hello can any one tell me that if i buy Acronis True Image 10 Home to back up my harddrive under vista using a external seagate usb hard drive would i be able to reinstall everything via the usb drive or do i need a internal ide/sata drive to make a clone
hard drive back up on a external drive
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I use Synctoy - you can basically configure it to synchronise files/folders from one place to another.
I plug my external drive into my fileserver once a week, run Synctoy and jobs done.
Google Synctoy - its a Microsoft power tool IIRC
EDIT: In fact, doesn't Vista come with its own backup tool? Or is that just Business/Ultimate?
I plug my external drive into my fileserver once a week, run Synctoy and jobs done.
Google Synctoy - its a Microsoft power tool IIRC
EDIT: In fact, doesn't Vista come with its own backup tool? Or is that just Business/Ultimate?
EZBackitup is great.
Like Synctoy it doesn't compress the data or anything like that, it just copies everything over like a mirror. It means that you'll need a big backup drive. If you back up two harddrives with 80GB of data on each, you're going to need a 200GB+ backup drive, however storage is so cheap these days, you can get 750GB/1TB drives without breaking the bank.
IMO it is far more reliable than utilites that compress your data, not only do you not run the risk of the compressed file becoming corrupt, but you don't have to uncompress it all to restore one file.
Like Synctoy it doesn't compress the data or anything like that, it just copies everything over like a mirror. It means that you'll need a big backup drive. If you back up two harddrives with 80GB of data on each, you're going to need a 200GB+ backup drive, however storage is so cheap these days, you can get 750GB/1TB drives without breaking the bank.
IMO it is far more reliable than utilites that compress your data, not only do you not run the risk of the compressed file becoming corrupt, but you don't have to uncompress it all to restore one file.
If you look in the General Utilities And Other Applications section, you will find above mentioned utilities and one or two thers that will be of use to you.
ATI 10 will also backup individual files and folders, but in a compressed ATI file format.
ATI 10 will also backup individual files and folders, but in a compressed ATI file format.