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1425379	2016-09-05 06:10:00	You have to create a new account then they supply you with a Serial for the software The last comment here malwaretips.com	Lawrence (2987)
1425380	2016-09-05 06:31:00	Gary's post, #2 hits the nail on the head :D Theres a huge problem ( or can be) with a lot of backup programs, in the fact they make a backups as images in their own formats. Which is fine if making a backup of a complete Hard Drive, but a real PITA for only backing up files, because if you delete a photo as an example you cant simply go and copy back one item, not without a lot of mucking about anyway, and you cant take the backup to another PC and copy off the backed up files, you need the program. There's a lots of free software that copy files/folders out of a image format. Tried that program Cy posted -- not impressed :( Selected a couple of folders with roughly 300MB of guff, it backed up fine over a LAN but when trying to get the data back, selected the image, it couldn't open it, saying no backup available, yet hellllooooo the program was looking and had selected right at it. Backups are useless unless they work ;)	wainuitech (129)
1425381	2016-09-05 06:58:00	Here's one way to easily backup files with straight folder copy method, has the advantage of being easily read by any computer. No good for a system backup but perfect for a file backup. If you use a removable drive it'll need to be connected with the same drive letter every time you run this. Open Notepad Cut and paste this into it and edit the source and target directories. If you want to do a lot of different folders just duplicate the line and edit it for each one Robocopy "C:\Source folder" "X:\Target folder" /MIR /XA:SH /XD "$recycle.bin" /W:5 /R:5 Save it as a .bat file by choosing save as - all files and naming it something like Backup.bat Don't save as a text file as it'll add .txt to the end -you probably don't need the switch that excludes the recycle bin but it does no harm. It's there because I use this to backup an entire drive to a folder and the recycle bin was causing me trouble. Save it somewhere and run it. the first time it will copy the entire folder including all subdirectories, after that it'll only mirror changes. To do it regularly set up a task in windows scheduler. It took a few hours to backup my NAS the first time (which is what I use this for) but usually only takes a few minutes on my weekly backup and that's over a gigabit ethernet connnection. To use it over a network map a drive letter first and use that.	dugimodo (138)
1425382	2016-09-05 12:24:00	Gary's post, #2 hits the nail on the head :D Theres a huge problem ( or can be) with a lot of backup programs, in the fact they make a backups as images in their own formats. Which is fine if making a backup of a complete Hard Drive, but a real PITA for only backing up files, because if you delete a photo as an example you cant simply go and copy back one item, not without a lot of mucking about anyway, and you cant take the backup to another PC and copy off the backed up files, you need the program. There's a lots of free software that copy files/folders out of a image format. Tried that program Cy posted -- not impressed :( Selected a couple of folders with roughly 300MB of guff, it backed up fine over a LAN but when trying to get the data back, selected the image, it couldn't open it, saying no backup available, yet hellllooooo the program was looking and had selected right at it. Backups are useless unless they work ;) Never actually tried just selecting certain folders, always done full system backup. And restoring works perfectly, either the full system or individual files/folders. Other tech forums I visit recommend it all the time too.	CYaBro (73)
1425383	2016-09-05 21:13:00	Never actually tried just selecting certain folders, always done full system backup. And restoring works perfectly, either the full system or individual files/folders. Other tech forums I visit recommend it all the time too.I'll try it again when I get time, but if you cant put back say 1 file then its a waste of time really. The software saw the backup that was made, but then said there wasn't any ???? Go figure :confused: I had one the other day, I was cleaning out some folders and accidentally deleted a folder that had some paid software in it -oops. Went to the backups from a couple of weeks ago and simply copied the single folder back to its original location.	wainuitech (129)
1425384	2016-09-06 01:09:00	Never actually tried just selecting certain folders, always done full system backup. And restoring works perfectly, either the full system or individual files/folders. Other tech forums I visit recommend it all the time too. Just tried again, Sorry but you can keep the software. Did a full backup, then put in a empty drive, booted from the media created, first it wouldn't load in the network drivers so manually had to inject them even though when making the media it clearly showed them being added, it still couldn't see the LAN, so manually had to map the drive, then it finally saw the backup. Tried to open just the main drive to browse its contents - error saying cant open drive from there ? Then thought OK put back the whole Image - FAIL- wouldn't put it back until I had manually recreated 4 separate partitions. Easy enough to do but defiantly not user friendly to someone who doesn't know how to do those types of tasks :(. Edited: Just finished imaging it back - Now its booted to the automatic repair --- obviously not a clean reimage. :( :(	wainuitech (129)
1425385	2016-09-06 03:19:00	I've been using EaseUS TODO Backup workstation (not free but and excellent product IMHO) for a while now, and it does the job for me. In all honesty, I'm not worried so much about my system drive (though I do perform a system backup twice weekly) I care more about my media and other files. I've only used the recovery disk 2 maybe 3 times to perform a bare bones restore which worked without issue and all other file restores from my NAS to local disks have been smooth as butter. TODO backup allows file, folder and image creation as well as disk cloning (well at least the Workstation version) Give the free version a go and see if you like it. Ihave found that the recovery CD is pretty good in terms of having the correct drivers available when booting from it. The Home version is $US30 I think and the Workstation version is $39, as far as I'm concerned this is money well spent in my expereince so far.	chiefnz (545)
1425386	2016-09-06 05:43:00	Just tried again, Sorry but you can keep the software. Did a full backup, then put in a empty drive, booted from the media created, first it wouldn't load in the network drivers so manually had to inject them even though when making the media it clearly showed them being added, it still couldn't see the LAN, so manually had to map the drive, then it finally saw the backup. Tried to open just the main drive to browse its contents - error saying cant open drive from there ? Then thought OK put back the whole Image - FAIL- wouldn't put it back until I had manually recreated 4 separate partitions. Easy enough to do but defiantly not user friendly to someone who doesn't know how to do those types of tasks :(. Edited: Just finished imaging it back - Now its booted to the automatic repair --- obviously not a clean reimage. :( :( Weird, maybe something is broken in a new version?! It certainly worked great last time I tested it but it has been a few months. Might need to test again! What OS did you backup?	CYaBro (73)
1425387	2016-09-06 06:15:00	Weird, maybe something is broken in a new version?! It certainly worked great last time I tested it but it has been a few months. Might need to test again! What OS did you backup? The OS is Windows 10 1607, going to a server 2012 shared folder on the LAN. When creating it seemed to go fine Have not try it to an external HDD as a backup location. The part that's the most putting off was it wouldn't allow the complete image to go back onto a blank HDD without having to manually create partitions. That was one of the things I disliked about shadow Protect, again good software, but putting back to blank drives needed a bit more work. For an example, Active@disk Image grabs all the partitions at once and creates as required, it could be 3-4 like a STD W10 install or 6+ like HP's have. BTW - the one it tried to put back sat on Attempting repairs for close to 1-1/2 hours before finally saying it couldn't repair. Used the default settings. Connected the original HDD, Re imaged it again With Active@ to test if there was some LAN problem (same server location) and came back fine.	wainuitech (129)
1425388	2016-09-06 10:40:00	I used "Acronis" for many years, but now use "AOMEI Backupper Standard", it does System Images, file backups, Universal restore, and has never gone wrong. Best of all it is free. There is a professional version, but the free standard version works well.	mzee (3324)
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