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| 453353 | 2006-05-09 00:08:00 | After some years without a backup programme, have now convinced myself that I need one.Looking for advice on the most simple system to use and preferrably free. Using XP2 plenty of Ram.......Ron.. :thumbs: |
Ron24 (337) | ||
| 453354 | 2006-05-09 00:24:00 | What are you planning on backing up to? CD, DVD, External HDD, USB Drive etc etc | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 453355 | 2006-05-09 00:49:00 | Use the one that’s built in to windows :) ;), its free & it does a good job! | stu161204 (123) | ||
| 453356 | 2006-05-09 00:51:00 | Use the one that’s built in to windows ... it does a good job!Have you proved that? It's what I use, but never having had to restore from a backup I still wonder how effective/reliable it'll be! | Greg (193) | ||
| 453357 | 2006-05-09 01:10:00 | Have you proved that? It's what I use, but never having had to restore from a backup I still wonder how effective/reliable it'll be! As I have restore a few files etc.. from a windows backup. |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 453358 | 2006-05-09 01:26:00 | What I should really do is set up a test machine here and actually do a backup and restore, to see how it works. | Greg (193) | ||
| 453359 | 2006-05-09 03:13:00 | What worries me regarding using Windows backup is that it may only work on the version of Windows that the backup was made . A few people have posted here asking how to restore backups made on Windows 95 or 98 or whatever and weren't able to as they were using a newer version of Windows . I far prefer to just make straight copies to another hard drive, CDs or DVDs than muck about with the Windows backup . If the files need to be compressed to save space then zip them up with WinRar or whatever . |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 453360 | 2006-05-09 04:24:00 | What are you planning on backing up to? CD, DVD, External HDD, USB Drive etc etc Have DVD and external HDD. The external HDD is only 18 GBs and I have over 20 to backup. Does the Windows programme shrink the files up? Thanks to all who have replied to this ancient bloke, greatly appreciated. Ron.. :thumbs: |
Ron24 (337) | ||
| 453361 | 2006-05-09 04:38:00 | Does the Windows programme shrink the files up? Don’t know :blush: :o have not figured that out yet. |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 453362 | 2006-05-09 04:58:00 | Does the Windows programme shrink the files up? Pretty sure it will only compress (shrink) the backup file if you are backing up to a tape drive and then the tape drive must support compression. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
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