advice on backup

joe134

Hi, I Have used Windows backup for my system and it said successful on 1 cd. My files and folders contain approx 220 mb, mozy auto back up does it and said 212mb. however I have 540mb of downloads, I don,t know if they are backed up on my 1st cd.How do I find out, and is it worth backing up downloads?As you can see, it,s nearly a complete cd,s worth of space in all.Would I be better backing complete C drive to DVD RW?Any advice would be grateful.

bskelhorn_2

Hi Joe,

Normally the windows backup will only backup the core files such as my docs etc as default, unless you have chosen other folders. One thing I would do is backup the downloads to a seperate CD / DVD. As these change with updates etc you will no doubt want to create a new backup with the updates.

As the cost of media is so low this would not be a problem and would save a lot of time, over using the windows backup option.

joe134

bskelhorn wrote: »

Hi Joe,

Normally the windows backup will only backup the core files such as my docs etc as default, unless you have chosen other folders. One thing I would do is backup the downloads to a seperate CD / DVD. As these change with updates etc you will no doubt want to create a new backup with the updates.

As the cost of media is so low this would not be a problem and would save a lot of time, over using the windows backup option.

Hi bskelhorn, thanks for reply. I used NTI until the other day, I uninstalled it, kept popping up. When I say windows, I mean back up to cd/dvd, not ether. When I do as you suggest, should I use cd -r every time for downloads, or rw, or canyou just amend any alterations to last backup? thanks

totalsolutions

CD-r here never seen the need for an erasable backup/copy, and more expensive and time consuming.

CD-r can do multiply writes dont finalise the cd. But you lose 10Mb each time for the directory. CD's are cheap.

enigma52

give comodo time machine a go, returns pc to initial baseline in seconds and best of all its free

joe134

totalsolutions wrote: »

CD-r here never seen the need for an erasable backup/copy, and more expensive and time consuming.

CD-r can do multiply writes dont finalise the cd. But you lose 10Mb each time for the directory. CD's are cheap.

Hi, thanks, I just let the program do it,s stuff, then remove the cd, does that mean it,s finalised or not?

joe134

enigma52 wrote: »

give comodo time machine a go, returns pc to initial baseline in seconds and best of all its free

Hi, Thanks, What does initial base line mean, is it an auto backup like Mozy?instead of cd/dvd?Cheers.As you can see, I don,t store a great deal on my pc, the whole C drive is only 3.5 Gb.Just downloaded it, it,s like a restore point, yes?

bskelhorn_2

as total said stick to CD-R as they are so cheap, if you need to burn an update disk just file the other one away for safe keeping. As for the size of your disk usage at the moment one thing to do is make an image (loads of software to choose from) of your setup as you want it to DVD. Then if you need to restore you have it all on one DVD.