Backing up files etc is something you generally only think about doing after the disaster has happened. I try to remember to copy stuff out onto an
external hard drive from time to time but it seems like there's always something more urgent needs doing.
Is there any (free or very cheap obviously
) bit of software that could do this sort of thing automatically? Maybe automatically copying selected
files out to another folder to be fired out to the external drive when its switched on?
Thanks in advance,
Mike
i have a feeling windows xp has a auto backup facility built in.
this laptop i'm on now (isn't mine) keeps saying every few days that it was turned off when backup was supposed to run and do i want to do
it now.
though i've never actually properly read the message and always say no, i don't know how youd set it up...
I use a program called NTI shadow. It came with an external hard drive when I bought it. It works very well and I back up every hour. You can set it up how you want it though.
If you have a spare old PC lying around there is a specific UNIX OS that is designed to make inremental/full backups over a network onto a hdd...or hdd array... Its fairly simple to use...I cant for the life of me remeber what it was called thogh.
What ever you do avoid using any backup program that backs up in a non standard format only use back up programs that use the well known
compression format such as .zip .arj and .rar. --- Especially avoid using MS Windows back up programs as MS have a history of changing backup
formats with new version of Windows and DOS and causing problems for users.
I use Cobian Backup for both manual and automated backup it has been 100% reliable over about 4-5 years -- for of which 2+ years doing
unattended automated backup.
It will back up to all kinds of media including optical and over a LAN connection it can also back using FTP so you can back up to your space on
your iSPs server.
It can be run normally or as an NT/XP service.
It will backup to vatious compressed formats (including ZIP) and also uncompressed.
Above all it is truly s free ie GPL software.
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm
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Originally posted by tegwin
If you have a spare old PC lying around there is a specific UNIX OS that is designed to make inremental/full backups over a network onto a hdd...or hdd array... Its fairly simple to use...I cant for the life of me remeber what it was called thogh.