Had a look in the archives but couldn't find anything.
What software do you use to manage your computer backups (not photos, but the general documents, settings, databases and all that gubbins - because you do back all that up, right ? :))
I've been looking around and the best I've found so far is BackUpMyPC by stompsoft.com
Before I go ahead and buy this, was wondering if anyone had any others they'd recommend.
Looking for something that supports DVDs, and will watch particular files/ folders and back them up/ verify etc. I'd really like something that didn't back up in a closed, proprietary format, which is what BackUpMyPC seems to do.
I don't need a whole lot of scripting, but network aware would be nice. I want to tag half a dozen folders and have everything in them backed up, with some exclusions (caches, certain files etc)
Does Windows Backup (NTBackup) not back to CD/DVD? I haven't tried it yet but the help file says (Win XP) that it will back up to any removable media that you can write a file to.
Does Windows Backup (NTBackup) not back to CD/DVD? I haven't tried it yet but the help file says (Win XP) that it will back up to any removable media that you can write a file to.
Sheesh you would think I would know this one...
You can use it to write to a drive and then backup what it wrote on to a DVD, using DVD writing software. After working out how to convince XP Home to install it (it's hidden on the install disks - no mention in any of the add or setup tools, or help, come to that :) ) it doesn't support DVD or CDs, or spanning or any of those nice features, unfortunately.
I have a reasonably complex set of things I want to back up:
3 user accounts, various bits of application data (PDA backups, network mail server data, photo databases) and data on a couple of laptops and a desktop. NTBackup didn't look like it would easily pull all of this together, while allowing me to avoid things like the rapidly ballooning Photoshop cache files (about 5Gb on its own) which are also in the apps data hierarchy.
For context, one account's my documents folder has 1400 sub directories and 13,000 files that I'd really like incremental backups on, while being able to selectively not back some of them up. My photos etc are all on a different drive and aren't part of this)
The earlier version that I have did not back up to disc incrementally. While I have the beta of the newer version I have not tried it out in this regard. I found that the whole process was way too slow and tedious.
What I ended up doing was taking a relatively new hard drive out of my older computer adding it to the new one and backing up to it with a freeware called Karen's Replicator from:
//www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp
Her program for me is way better and easier than DeepBurner Pro which I also have but now never use.
