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How often do you back up?
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I try to backup weekly on a Friday afternoon...
Andy0 -
intellitechitsolutions wrote: »You can read more about the service either my googling it, the name is DataVault UK or send me a message
Hope to hear your views soon.
Regards,
Faiz
Far too expensive, I use Carbonite which offers far better encryption 1024 bit Blowfish as opposed to 448 bit Blowfish and unlimited storage for about £30 per YEAR as opposed to £35 per MONTH for only 10 GiB."She is quite the oddball. Did you notice how she didn't even get excited when she saw this original ZX-81?"
Moss0 -
Would like to do it once weekly (work from home). Bought Ghost cause told it would do backups automatically, instead of everytime I remember :j
After many hrs - gave up. When I contacted a Ghost helpline, they siad it was not for beginners. :mad:
I am bit a bit better than that but still could not get it to do what I wanted. Bought a second HDrive
Back to MS backup (XP). Thought I had managed to schedule a weekly backup but I don't think it's happening...how can I tell?
I don't do this often enough, so it takes me ages to work it all out :eek:0 -
Download a trial of Acronis True Image 10 from here and give it a try. Much better and easier than Ghost.
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TOG604!0 -
Thank you but not sure I can face it. Not keen on trials-further costs.
The MS xp backup should do the job shouldn't it???0 -
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Sorry but I get a bit lost when it comes to talk of partitions etc. Don't think I am techie enough for this!!!0
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Don't worry about partitions. All you need to do is select your C: drive and make an image (backup) of it to the second hard drive you bought.
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TOG604!0 -
One of the best and cheapest methods for back-up I found was to buy a 2.5" USB caddie for £5 off of eBay and chuck in an old laptop HD.
I currently have a 40GB HD attached to my iMac and works a treat, I take it into work and all sorts.
I have never used any software to make my back-ups, just manually drag and drop stuff.0 -
if i do something important i back it up simple as,
i use raid miroring on my hard drives and backup to other drives as often as needed, im a computer engineer of 10 years and nothing is worse than data loss, i make music and can spend 10 hours at a time working on stuff and i really do take backups seriously this also goes accross into my job other peoples data is important even if its just a music collection or a few photos. many times use user will say don't worry about backing that up, but i do anyway because a week later you can 99% predict they will call me up saying i can't find my favorites or some document from there desktop0
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