What backup software do you use?

sra

Acronis for taking disk images
and SyncBack for those smaller backups

wonderfullife_2

Hi
Acronis True Image for me, very easy to use.

wolfman

I'll second SyncBack. I started using the free version, but in the end paid the £8 and bought the full version. It's been great.

It has a huge number of features. Have a look on the web site to see all the kind of things you can do.

I use it to take daily backups which are compressed and stored locally (on my 2nd hard drive). This is more for version control than anything else. I also use it to backup to a shared folder on the network. And finally, once a week I backup any essential files to my ftp space online so I have an offsite backup. And for each of the above it emails me if it fails.

And then for imaging (my Window drive) I use Acronis TrueImage. It doesn't have the intricate feature set of SyncBack but is meant for backing up in a different sense. You should be able to pickup version 8 for around £15. It's one of the utils I couldn't be without. I basically install Windows perfectly, every little setting just how I like it, then take an image with Acronis. Means if something goes wrong, or my system starts to get bogged down/slow, I can recover it within 5 minutes from the image (no more hours spent re-installing).

John_M_Business

Of course, you could try Synctoy from Microsoft. It's free, y'know (aren't they the generous ones??)...
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/synctoy.mspx

bobobrussel

Acronis True Image 8 to back up entire disk. Buy it off ebay cos' it's dirt cheap.

amosworks

I use the oldest and best - tar :cool:

Louisepp

Aww cheers for the suggestions :beer:

I'm evaluating synback as we speak and it looks like it's going to do everything I need. :j :j

NastyMatt

copy and paste.

nickmack

I had a quick look at SyncBack, but I can't see any way of making backups for say 14 days and then overwriting the first after that period. It can only seem to make one backup to a specific location.

As I said, I've only had time to do a brief scan over the program, so maybe one of the users can tell me if this is possible?

At the moment I use Active Backup Expert which works very well.

wolfman

nickmack wrote:

I had a quick look at SyncBack, but I can't see any way of making backups for say 14 days and then overwriting the first after that period. It can only seem to make one backup to a specific location.

Not part of the free version. For versioned backups you'll need the full £8 version. You can set it to whatever period you want (days of the week, month or even year) before it loops back round.

Or you could install something like Tortiose SVN (for version control, it's free) then use the free version of SyncBack to take backups of the repositories each day. That way you'd achieve the same effect.