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General Category => Off the Record => Computer Affairs => Topic started by: Oexmelin on April 04, 2011, 03:02:59 PM

Title: Backup / Sync
Post by: Oexmelin on April 04, 2011, 03:02:59 PM
What do you use for backup and synchronizing external drives? Is Windows 7 backup programme worth anything?
Title: Re: Backup / Sync
Post by: derspiess on April 04, 2011, 03:17:25 PM
Backup-- Windows Home Server, managed from the server side.  I keep my music & pics synched with SyncToy.
Title: Re: Backup / Sync
Post by: Darth Wagtaros on April 04, 2011, 07:28:05 PM
Window's backup isn't terrible. And its free.  You want to make an image of your primary drive for restorations or just back up data?
Title: Re: Backup / Sync
Post by: Oexmelin on April 04, 2011, 07:35:55 PM
I want to back up data - tens of thousands of pictures of old papers, and a few hundred text files. I want to synchronize music and those text files, mostly because I might not remember which of them I have modified during the course of a day.
Title: Re: Backup / Sync
Post by: Darth Wagtaros on April 04, 2011, 07:45:44 PM
Perhaps a commercial software like suresync then. 
Title: Re: Backup / Sync
Post by: derspiess on April 04, 2011, 07:49:33 PM
The free SyncToy program from MS should cover the sync part.  Use Windows backup for your system files & you're set.
Title: Re: Backup / Sync
Post by: viper37 on April 08, 2011, 12:51:56 PM
Quote from: Oexmelin on April 04, 2011, 07:35:55 PM
I want to back up data - tens of thousands of pictures of old papers, and a few hundred text files. I want to synchronize music and those text files, mostly because I might not remember which of them I have modified during the course of a day.
I use Nero Back-it UP, it came with the Nero Suite.
But I heard great things about this one (http://www.altaro.com/), inspired by Apple's Time Machine.  There's a free trial so you could download it and see.