iscmatt
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| posted on 4/7/09 at 05:35 PM |
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best free back up for PC
can anybody reccomend a good - free download - back up software for a windows laptop..
I have an external drive i want to back it up to.
Any reccomendations much appreciated
Cheers!!!
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BenB
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| posted on 4/7/09 at 05:39 PM |
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You could use the built in backup / restore within Windows.
Otherwise something like
Partition-saving
http://damien.guibouret.free.fr/en/index_frame.html
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britishtrident
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| posted on 4/7/09 at 05:44 PM |
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Cobian backup --- pretty well bullet proof now on version 9 I have been using it since version 4.
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm
I use it for unattended backups over a network it has never failled and it has saved my bacon more than once.
It will do compressed or uncompressed --- compressed format is standard ZIP so you aren't locked into using the software.
It will also backup over FTP or use SSH for SFTP.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 4/7/09 at 05:46 PM |
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Beware MS Windows own backup MS have a long track record of changing backup formats resulting in backups that are unreadable by later versions of
Windows.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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chrsgrain
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| posted on 4/7/09 at 06:11 PM |
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I run a Mac with TimeMachine, but some of my collegues in the lab (where data loss is really no joke!) use Cucku... and it appears to be brilliant -
local and off site backups...
Cucku backups
NTDWM by theway!
Chris
Spoing! - the sound of an irony meter breaking...
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