Re: Backup for Home PC and Laptop

[Bob Crothers <bob.crothers@xxxxxxxxx>]

No hardware.  Use Carbonite - a cloud based backup.  It does the backup via
the Internet as you change stuff.  If my machine to crash right now, the
most I'd loose are the files I'd actually had open.  Those I'd get the older
version.

Cost is low.  about $50 a year.  Works with all of the desktop flavors of
Windows: XP, 2K, Vista 32 and 64, Win 7 32 and 64.  I'm currently using it
on 3 different systems.

And if you have a system that you dont want to spend the 50 bucks/year on,
then set up a share on a system that has carbonite and run a daily backup
using MS Backup.  If the data on the machine is not worth $50, then just
about anything would work for backup since you dont care much about it.

Bob Crothers
www.BJsBariatrics.Com
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- Michelangelo


On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx <
lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I want to move beyond CDs for backup of my home PC (XP) & laptop
> (Vista).  The obvious solution seems to be a USB External Hard Drive.
>
> Most of the one’s I’ve looked at seem to come with vendor supplied
> backup software, but don’t seem to have much detail on the software
> capabilities.
>
> I don’t know that I want continuous backup.  I’m more inclined to want
> to say when to do a back up (probably weekly) and want to keep several
> generations of the backup (this week, last week, the week before, etc.)
> Though possibly a continuous backup will allow me to keep “n” copies of
> a file and that might be easier for restores.
>
> I also want to back up *both* my desktop and my laptop to the one
> external drive.
>
> I’d like to hear your about your experience with specific hardware, the
> vendor supplied software, or non-vendor specific software (e.g. Ghost or
> Acronis, and your approach to backup).
>
> Thanks,  Sam
>
> (And I’m curious about how these drives connect.  Do they just plug in
> and act like a USB Memory Stick?  Can you reformat them?  Make multiple
> partitions?  Do they all work the same way?--I’ve read some that Western
> Digital drives install some strange software.)
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