Need good backup solution - not imaging

z0mbi3 · 13 Oct 2007 at 14:04

I'm looking for a decent backup solution for my documents in Vista. I don't need disk imaging or anything like that, just a way of scheudling the back up of a few folders.

So yeah, idealy I'm thinking of a commerical solution that can run silently as a service and run backups at scheduled times, maybe twice a week.

I want to be specifying 2 seperate HDDs as the backup destination (both on the local pc) and also to an FTP site.

So any recommndations?

bledd · 13 Oct 2007 at 14:31

doesn't have FTP, but SyncToy is pretty awesome, from microsoft

it only copies new & updated files after the first run

z0mbi3 · 13 Oct 2007 at 15:07

Nice. I think that will do the job nicely.

Greenlizard0 · 13 Oct 2007 at 17:48

bledd. said:
doesn't have FTP, but SyncToy is pretty awesome, from microsoft

it only copies new & updated files after the first run

Seconded - a very effective piece of software

z0mbi3 · 13 Oct 2007 at 21:17

Yeah it's pretty much perfect for my needs. I don't really need FTP anyway as long as I have my files mirrored on two other drives.

I did have to hack it though. Stopped responding as soon as I opened it. Turn out one of the DLLs that comes with it isn't x64 compatible so needed replacing with a newer one. All works now.

MS are aware of the issue and are meant to be fixing it in the next release.