TTQ B4U Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 Have my new PC build and it's going strong. Since Feb I've been doing weekly incremental back ups using the Win 7 Backup tool, but it's dog slow and many times it will not complete and I' have a feeling it's not as reliable as it needs to be. Without debating that part too much, I'm looking for what your thoughts are a nice simple low cost back up software that will do incremental. I'll continue to use Windows to make images of the drives and I have them from early on in my build, but of course I like to do one monthly too. Thoughts? Links? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRN96WS6 Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 Microsoft synctoy has done me well thus far. Its FREE as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Second Gen Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 http://www.carbonite.com/ 59 $ -a year and is available if you travel (No need to drag a USB HD) PLus they host the information if you want to share it with someone else Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STEVE-O Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 get a second hard drive and set it up as a mirror drive to the bootable drive and presto everything is already backed up for you. Only cost you some time and the cost of a hard drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceGhost Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 This feature comes with every Mac. never had it fail and have gone back and retrieved files I deleted thinking I would not need them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acklac7 Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 Mac's are for fags and girls...j/s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Spam Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 Acronis backup is by far the best. Its time machine for windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Jones Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 Carbonite & Synctoys = Win. Clone all your folders on network & external drives & local to 1 drive w/ organized folders using synctoys. Then have carbonite back that fucker up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTQ B4U Posted May 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 Carbonite & Synctoys = Win. Clone all your folders on network & external drives & local to 1 drive w/ organized folders using synctoys. Then have carbonite back that fucker up. You got me thinking. We use carbonite at my wife's office as it's always on and she never has to really think about it. I like that. I believe I've fixed the issue with the backups failing and have a brand new drive formatted and a full backup of my files running now. We'll see. If it runs through the night and works fine, I'll be pleased. If not, I'll look at carbonite here at home too. I just like having them on a physical disk in my hands/bank deposit box. I suppose I could do both to be really safe. Worth the money for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Jones Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 You got me thinking. We use carbonite at my wife's office as it's always on and she never has to really think about it. I like that. I believe I've fixed the issue with the backups failing and have a brand new drive formatted and a full backup of my files running now. We'll see. If it runs through the night and works fine, I'll be pleased. If not, I'll look at carbonite here at home too. I just like having them on a physical disk in my hands/bank deposit box. I suppose I could do both to be really safe. Worth the money for sure. That's what I do, stuff from various drives/ shares/ gets dumped into 1 central drive. (synctoys) That central drive is then incrementally backed up by carbonite so as new files are added, you have a copy of them somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Spam Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 Or you could just use acronis. I sometimes know what I'm talking about. :eyeroll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unfunnyryan Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 Windows backup has always been quick and reliable for me. What are you backing up to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorne Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 I like clonezilla Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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