I'm looking for some direction in purchasing a second hard drive and backup
software. The second hard drive may be internal or external. What I'm
looking for in the software is ease of use. I'd like to backup everything to
another hard drive about once a week with a minimum of hassle. Is there
anything out there you can recommend? Many thanks in advance for your
assistance.

Look no further:
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/


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"Zed" <yourname@here.com> wrote in message
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> I'm looking for some direction in purchasing a second hard drive and
> backup software. The second hard drive may be internal or external. What
> I'm looking for in the software is ease of use. I'd like to backup
> everything to another hard drive about once a week with a minimum of
> hassle. Is there anything out there you can recommend? Many thanks in
> advance for your assistance.
>

Zed wrote:
> I'm looking for some direction in purchasing a second hard drive and backup
> software. The second hard drive may be internal or external. What I'm
> looking for in the software is ease of use. I'd like to backup everything to
> another hard drive about once a week with a minimum of hassle. Is there
> anything out there you can recommend? Many thanks in advance for your
> assistance.

I have the Maxtor One Touch external hard drive.

It comes with Dantz Restrospect Express for backup software; I use
Windows Backup instead.

I automatically backup daily and keep 4 months' worth of backups online.

On Sunday 25 September 2005 07:09 pm, Zed had this to say in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

> I'm looking for some direction in purchasing a second hard drive and
> backup software. The second hard drive may be internal or external. What
> I'm looking for in the software is ease of use. I'd like to backup
> everything to another hard drive about once a week with a minimum of
> hassle. Is there anything out there you can recommend? Many thanks in
> advance for your assistance.

Get the best and easiest to use ... Acronis True Image.

Cheers.

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"Zed" <yourname@here.com> wrote in message
news:jLIZe.23496$ib1.17230@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com. ..
> I'm looking for some direction in purchasing a second hard drive and
> backup software. The second hard drive may be internal or external. What
> I'm looking for in the software is ease of use. I'd like to backup
> everything to another hard drive about once a week with a minimum of
> hassle. Is there anything out there you can recommend? Many thanks in
> advance for your assistance.
>

External is the way to go as it can be stored somewhere other than near the
computer. Instead of backup think disaster recovery. This includes fire,
theft, flood, earthquake, whatever. I would also think about a second method
that is possibly used less often. For this I recommend a DVD writer. The
reason for two methods is again disaster recovery.

For software try what comes with the drive. Test backing up and restoring to
a different location to make sure it works and you know how it works. If it
seems cumbersome or simply doesn't work try something else. Norton Ghost,
Acronis True Image, or even ntbackup all work well with external hard
drives. For a DVD writer I have used NovaBackup http://www.novastor.com/
with good results. I am sure there are lots of other good programs as well.

How much are your pictures worth? How much is that love poem to your wife
worth? How much is the last three years of your accounting or tax returns
worth? The OS and programs are secondary. The data is what's really
important.

Kerry

"Zed" <yourname@here.com> wrote in message
news:jLIZe.23496$ib1.17230@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com. ..
> I'm looking for some direction in purchasing a second hard drive and
> backup software. The second hard drive may be internal or external. What
> I'm looking for in the software is ease of use. I'd like to backup
> everything to another hard drive about once a week with a minimum of
> hassle. Is there anything out there you can recommend? Many thanks in
> advance for your assistance.
>

A couple of the hard drive manufacturers are making external drives
specifically for use as backups, with included software. Seagate and Maxtor
have them, and maybe others as well. I haven't tried either, but the word is
it's just a button-push on the drive to start the backup. Or you can set up
a schedule. If you're looking for easy, these may be worth looking at.

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 02:09:19 GMT, "Zed" <yourname@here.com> wrote:

>I'm looking for some direction in purchasing a second hard drive and backup
>software. The second hard drive may be internal or external. What I'm
>looking for in the software is ease of use. I'd like to backup everything to
>another hard drive about once a week with a minimum of hassle. Is there
>anything out there you can recommend? Many thanks in advance for your
>assistance.

I have used NTI Backup Now, Ghost, and Retrospect.
I just purchased Casper 3.0 XP, best ever - first time it took 30
minutes, subsequent times are less than 5 minutes.
I have C and D on one drive, I use Casper for E and F on another
drive, same size (60gb).
I also use Casper to copy to (not an active partition like the above)
to a Maxtor external.
Retrospect was fairly difficult to setup, and then it was unstable.
NTI Backup was slow.
Ghost is owned by Symantec now, it probably will try to take over
y'alls computer like the antivirus.
And, Casper e-mail help was unbelievably excellent.
Not a Casper agent in any way..........hth.........Shelly

Look further than Ghost...look at Acronis Drive Image 9
www.acronis.com

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> Look no further:
> http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/
>
>
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>
> "Zed" <yourname@here.com> wrote in message
> news:jLIZe.23496$ib1.17230@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com. ..
>> I'm looking for some direction in purchasing a second hard drive and
>> backup software. The second hard drive may be internal or external. What
>> I'm looking for in the software is ease of use. I'd like to backup
>> everything to another hard drive about once a week with a minimum of
>> hassle. Is there anything out there you can recommend? Many thanks in
>> advance for your assistance.
>>
>
>

Hi Zed,

I personally feel that any solution which is not automated and at
least daily is not a good backup solution. You can pick up a second
drive for under $100 and use freeware backup tools such as SyncBack or
Back2zip to keep your data continously backed up. Here's a little
roundup of some freeware backup tools:

http://free-backup.info/backup-software.htm

In news:1127714695.572954.157120@g47g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com,
chad@aahh.com <chad@aahh.com> typed:

> I personally feel that any solution which is not automated and
> at
> least daily is not a good backup solution.


There's no single frequency of backing up that's right for
everyone. How often someone needs to backup is greatly dependent
on how he works and what he needs to back up. If you run a
business, you may need to back more frequently than once a day,
but others may need to back up much less frequently.

It takes time and effort to backup, but it also takes time and
effort to recreate lost data. If you back up daily, you should
never have to recreate more than one day's worth of last data. If
weekly, there's potentially a lot more to recreate. You should
assess how much pain and trouble you would have if you lost x
days of data, and then choose a backup frequency that doesn't
involve more pain and trouble than that you would have if you had
to recreate what was lost.

Daily backup may be appropriate for you, but it's far from a
requirement for everyone.



> You can pick up a second
> drive for under $100 and use freeware backup tools such as
> SyncBack or


I don't recommend backup to a second non-removable hard drive
because it leaves you susceptible to simultaneous loss of the
original and backup to many of the most common dangers: severe
power glitches, nearby lightning strikes, virus attacks, even
theft of the computer.

In my view, secure backup needs to be on removable media, and not
kept in the computer. For really secure backup (needed, for
example, if the life of your business depends on your data) you
should have multiple generations of backup, and at least one of
those generations should be stored off-site.

My computer isn't used for business, but my personal backup
scheme uses two identical removable hard drives, which fit into a
sleeve installed in the computer (see
http://www.kingwin.com/pdut_Cat.asp?CateID=35). I alternate
between the two, and use Drive Image to make a complete copy of
the primary drive.


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I think the solution depends on your situation. Are the files which need
backing up in one folder or are they dispersed? If they are dispersed a
simple Windows copy folder is all that's required. Or, if you want to get a
little fancier, there are many freeware folder replicators, such as Karen's
Replicator. The advantage of the foregoing methods is no proprietary file
formats are used.

If your files are dispersed you'll need a backup program to remember what
and where the files are. Windows has one, although a very basic one. I use
NTI Backup Now for that purpose.



"Zed" <yourname@here.com> wrote in message
news:jLIZe.23496$ib1.17230@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com. ..
> I'm looking for some direction in purchasing a second hard drive and
> backup software. The second hard drive may be internal or external. What
> I'm looking for in the software is ease of use. I'd like to backup
> everything to another hard drive about once a week with a minimum of
> hassle. Is there anything out there you can recommend? Many thanks in
> advance for your assistance.
>

I advise you to use Acronis True Image:
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...cts/trueimage/ . I have found
that it's really easy and convenient in use. You may download trial
version, try to use it and I'm sure that you will make the same
conclusion. By the way, the new version of this program can backup
individual files. I think that it is a great benefit.

Here are some data-backup freeware tools you might want to look at:

http://free-backup.info/backup-software.htm

-Chad
http://free-backup.info