good software for PC auto backup?
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Anyone have a suggestion for some good backup software... cheap or free would be good.
I want to have daily backups made from my documents on the c drive and music from one external 500 gb drive to another external 500 gb drive. I am having problems with the windows task scheduler... says access is denied or something along those lines.
I either need to figure out how to get the windows backups to work, or use something different alltogether.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
-David
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I know many of my IT friends are using Acronis
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looks promising. home edition runs 49.99 so not too bad. I think I may try and figure out why the windows backup isn't working properly first tho.
Anyone else have a suggestion?
-David
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robocopy is a free tool from MS if all you want is a backup copy of files. I do a robocopy from my main drive to my external one. I have a scheduled job, but I'm more likely to just click on the batch file I have on my desktop to do it manually once in a while.
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BTW...it is in the resource kit here. or there is also a GUI version of an updated version of robocopy called richcopy here
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Acronis seems to be the backup software of choice. My cousin has done backups of a unix system using the pc version even though this is not a supported feature.
The ability to do a bare metal restore is very nice. I have already done this once and it works very well.
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If you are like me, constantly adding and removing software, then reloading your PC from scratch now and then is not always a bad thing. I usually find that I get very noticeable returns in speed increases every time I do it. Therefore I back up only my data and if my OS goes kaboom, I view it as forcing myself to do a much needed re-install anyways.
Still, this alternative view is not for everyone. Also, if I relied on my home PC for work, an instant solution would be much more valuable.
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I agree Zarack, we use Robocopy often at work to migrate files from one server to another. I moved over a Terebyte one weekend.
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