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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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757885 2009-03-19 18:44:00 I get so tired of endlessly telling people to backup their data.
Then when it all goes wrong they stand there crying.
What can I do? Its not always possible to retrieve it.............



So, all you people who haven't backed up, go do it NOW.
pctek (84)
757886 2009-03-19 18:56:00 And don't just do it now and forget about it - keep doing it. somebody (208)
757887 2009-03-19 21:19:00 1. What programs does everyone use to backup? Or do you all do it manually, copying each file/folder individually?

2. Does anyone know of a program which syncs files, but only syncs changed files? So it ends up making incremental, not full backups?
utopian201 (6245)
757888 2009-03-19 21:33:00 1. What programs does everyone use to backup? Or do you all do it manually, copying each file/folder individually?

2. Does anyone know of a program which syncs files, but only syncs changed files? So it ends up making incremental, not full backups?

1) I back up my C: partition using Vista's complete PC backup, which does a block level differential backup with versioning (scheduled to run daily at 6pm). I back up D: drive (my data partition) to a network share using Cobian Backup, which does incremental backups (scheduled to run daily at 6pm)

2) Vista's Complete PC Backup tool, Cobian Backup, Synctoy, and for my Linux environments, home-grown backup scripts (scheduled to run daily at 1am).
somebody (208)
757889 2009-03-19 21:34:00 SyncBack Freeware (www.2brightsparks.com) is a good place to start. :thumbs:
Download is about 2/3 of the way down the page.
CYaBro (73)
757890 2009-03-19 21:44:00 I will when I can, honest.PJ Poppa John (284)
757891 2009-03-19 22:57:00 I usually use SyncBack for my Docs on D drive, and image my C drive once a month through a networked drive. Blam (54)
757892 2009-03-20 00:25:00 The crying person yesterday, I made her buy an external drive and gave her detailed instructions.
Her accountant sent her a flash drive.
Both were still in their packaging when disaster occurred.

Crying then doesn't help.
Makes me feel bad for them, but hey what did I say a thousand times?
pctek (84)
757893 2009-03-20 01:02:00 I use "Seagate Disc Wizard" to clone C: drive to an external usb hard drive, and have made a boot disc in case of complete drive failure. I create a new image once a week.

Only started doing this after going through the painful experience of loosing all my my data last year because of hard drive failure.
Nyuuji (5460)
757894 2009-03-20 01:06:00 Im with CYaBro & blam6 -- Its a great lil piece of software when you've got it up n running :) Chilling_Silence (9)
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