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From: Joe on 15 Jun 2010 18:41 I looked at USB hard drives at Best Buy the other day- I plan on buying a 1 TB drive. The backup software all seems similar at least from what the boxes say. or would it be better to use third party software like Acronis? My PC has Vista- the backup software with that is extremely minimal. Joe
From: Lynn McGuire on 15 Jun 2010 19:00 > I looked at USB hard drives at Best Buy the other day- I plan on buying a 1 TB drive. The backup software all seems similar at least > from what the boxes say. > > or would it be better to use third party software like Acronis? > > My PC has Vista- the backup software with that is extremely minimal. I use robocopy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy ) and mirror my drives onto my backup drive. Here is my backup.bat file on the drive: mkdir logs robocopy \\gui1\c gui1_c /s /e /v /r:0 /xj /log:logs\gui1_c.txt /tee robocopy \\sc\c sc_c /s /e /v /r:0 /xj /log:logs\sc_c.txt /tee robocopy \\ks\c ks_c /s /e /v /r:0 /xj /log:logs\ks_c.txt /tee robocopy \\id\c id_c /s /e /v /r:0 /xj /log:logs\id_c.txt /tee robocopy \\or\c or_c /s /e /v /r:0 /xj /log:logs\or_c.txt /tee robocopy \\hi\c hi_c /s /e /v /r:0 /xj /log:logs\hi_c.txt /tee robocopy \\tx\c tx_c /s /e /v /r:0 /xj /log:logs\tx_c.txt /tee robocopy \\ca\c ca_c /s /e /v /r:0 /xj /log:logs\ca_c.txt /tee robocopy \\io\c io_c /s /e /v /r:0 /xj /log:logs\io_c.txt /tee robocopy \\nd\c nd_c /s /e /v /r:0 /xj /log:logs\nd_c.txt /tee robocopy \\co\c co_c /s /e /v /r:0 /xj /log:logs\co_c.txt /tee robocopy \\sd\c sd_c /s /e /v /r:0 /xj /log:logs\sd_c.txt /tee robocopy \\wv\c wv_c /s /e /v /r:0 /xj /log:logs\wv_c.txt /tee robocopy \\mn\c mn_c /s /e /v /r:0 /xj /log:logs\mn_c.txt /tee robocopy \\ok\c ok_c /s /e /v /r:0 /xj /log:logs\ok_c.txt /tee attrib -h -s gui1_c attrib -h -s sc_c attrib -h -s ks_c attrib -h -s id_c attrib -h -s or_c attrib -h -s hi_c attrib -h -s tx_c attrib -h -s ca_c attrib -h -s io_c attrib -h -s nd_c attrib -h -s co_c attrib -h -s ok_c attrib -h -s sd_c attrib -h -s wv_c attrib -h -s mn_c date /t time /t echo "" > lasttime dir dir logs Lynn
From: Arno on 15 Jun 2010 19:18 Joe <joe(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: > I looked at USB hard drives at Best Buy the other day- I plan on buying a 1 > TB drive. The backup software all seems similar at least from what the boxes > say. > or would it be better to use third party software like Acronis? > My PC has Vista- the backup software with that is extremely minimal. > Joe It depends on your needs. The backup software coming with these things may negatively surprise you, better not depend on it. You can either do something using basic commands like robocopy, rsync, etc., as Lynn suggests. Or you buy a full-fleged backup software. If you are going to, a lot of the available commercial backup software options have fundamental flaws. TrueImage is one of the few that does well in all regards. My personal solution is to backup Win 7 with Linux, using ntfscopy for the NTFS system partition and plain GNU tar for the FAT32 data partitions. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno(a)wagner.name GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans
From: Yousuf Khan on 16 Jun 2010 02:49 On 6/16/2010 4:41 AM, Joe wrote: > I looked at USB hard drives at Best Buy the other day- I plan on buying > a 1 TB drive. The backup software all seems similar at least from what > the boxes say. > > or would it be better to use third party software like Acronis? > > My PC has Vista- the backup software with that is extremely minimal. > Joe I use the Windows 7 backup, which I hear is a quantum leap better than anything that came with Windows before, but I have no idea, as I never used any of the stuff that came in Windows before. I hear one of my systems has failed in Canada. I have backed it up with the Windows 7 backup, so once I'm back in Canada I'll know how good it is at restore. Yeesh, why do these things always happen when you're gone?! Yousuf Khan
From: Rod Speed on 16 Jun 2010 03:06
Joe wrote: > I looked at USB hard drives at Best Buy the other day- I plan on > buying a 1 TB drive. The backup software all seems similar at least > from what the boxes say. > or would it be better to use third party software like Acronis? Thats what I prefer, mainly because it give you more capability. > My PC has Vista- the backup software with that is extremely minimal. |