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| Thread ID: 98310 | 2009-03-19 18:44:00 | BACKUP, Backup, Backup your PC | pctek (84) | Press F1 |
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| 757915 | 2009-03-20 08:53:00 | You could buy a copy from wainuitech - he's a reseller.... :p Can't afford it:crying If only M$ could be convinced to have it as part of DreamSpark...:p |
Blam (54) | ||
| 757916 | 2009-03-20 08:53:00 | Does nobody use Ghost anymore? | turtle63 (9378) | ||
| 757917 | 2009-03-20 09:02:00 | Yeah but can be slow and for full HDDs only (mainly). Files can be v large and not fit onto a DVD or a few DVDS can be a hassle. I have True Image which makes a good one after the system is built up. But using Ghost / True Image every night can be a hassle and then have 2 backup copies of it incase one copy goes biff. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 757918 | 2009-03-20 09:10:00 | My free version of Syncback does incremental backups and can be fully automated. (Version 3.2.10.0 ) Also. my previous use of FreeNAS, where I had it as another drive on my PC, I just ran SyncBack and told it to save everything to the FreeNAS drive. |
decibel (11645) | ||
| 757919 | 2009-03-20 09:12:00 | Tried acronis once as a trial and found it took over and very hard to get rid of, quite liked the program but invasive.. Anyone else found that? Interesting comment about Ghost as we used to use it all the time as a backup tool or copying drive to drive.... Loved it that of course was the old days... Win98 etc |
turtle63 (9378) | ||
| 757920 | 2009-03-20 09:15:00 | Robocopy for mirror image of each Drive then incremental back ups at 2 am each day :) | Zippity (58) | ||
| 757921 | 2009-03-20 09:15:00 | Does nobody use Ghost anymore? Used it about a month or so ago, a customers drive that wouldn't read VERY unstable - True Image & Paragon spat the dummy with bad sectors , Linux didn't even have a look in. Last resort - dug out the Ol Floppy with Ghost, and set to ignore bad sectors - imaged the drive to a good workshop drive - it saved all the customers data I could get (took ages most of the day - clunk clunk clunk :sleep) - then installed a new drive / OS and put back 99% of her data. Did she have back ups as per this thread --- NNNOoooooooooooooo ---Does now though. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 757922 | 2009-03-20 09:25:00 | You are so right, ghost old stuff works every time.. :) well only if the freezeer thing works.. | turtle63 (9378) | ||
| 757923 | 2009-03-20 10:31:00 | My bro-in-law has a pretty good system. I sold him a 500GB Seagate USB HDD that he connects to the home PC once a week. Using the software that came with the HDD it automatically backs up the changed data from the selected folders. He then keeps the HDD in the car. This acts as the off-site backup in case of a fire or theft of the PC. Bit stuffed though if someone breaks in to the house, puts the PC in the car and takes off in it :crying Another awesome backup program I sell all the time, and use myself for doing backups of clients machines in the workshop, is ShadowProtect. They have different versions for a desktop, server or an IT tech. The desktop and server versions get installed and run in the background and do regular backups up right down to every 15 mins if you want, incremental of course. The IT version is a bootable disc for doing backups on any machine with any OS. The best feature is the restore, you can browse backup images and restore individual files/folders or restore a whole backup, to a totally different machine if you want, and be up and running again in as little as 30 mins. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 757924 | 2009-03-20 20:41:00 | Blimey CYaBro - just had a look at that Shadowprotect, sounds like the same one Here (store.storagecraft.com) -- Ouch :eek: at the price - esp the IT subscription - thanks but no thanks - not paying $3500 US / year, even the home user version is very expensive compared to other software available. | wainuitech (129) | ||
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