Backing Up

patman99

Try photobucket. You can only upload so many photos each day, but over a period of time you will have your entire collection stored online.
Or, for the ultimate in security, set up a website with 'UnlimitedGB', they get some good reviews and you really do get an unlimited storage solution.

thor

I know it is a longshot but I am hoping that someone here maight have experienced and found a solution to a problem I am having with maxblast.
I am using maxblast 5 to clone a seagate ide hard drive to another identical drive so that I can swap the two without having to make any changes to settings and not notice a difference.
This worked fine until yesterday when I found that the clone drive fails to boot up all the way. It goes through most of the sequence but just when you are supposed to get to the profile logon box, it hangs with the all blue screen save for the little windows xp logo.
I have cloned onto another drive and got the same result so I am ruling a disc fault.
If it is a software issue then I suppose I will have to find another free cloning utility but it will be a shame because maxblast was so easy to use.
Btw I am running a winxp pro system.

room512

The_JinJ wrote: »

Just tried Crashplan - impressed so far - can backup to external drives, other pc's, online etc - also backs up networks drives. Works out about £3/m for online backup - got decent upload speeds too. 30 day free trial of online, main app is free

Has anyone else tried this? Was on Mozy but they have deleted their $4.99 unlimited storage plan and it's now gone up. I need a 150GB online storage facility (OH has set me this task and I have no idea so thought I'd look on MSE.)I don't want to get scammed!

Toxteth_OGrady

Review here, sounds OK:

http://www.smallcloudbuilder.com/backup/reviews/160-crashplan-review

room512

Bit wary of using CrashPlan as you have to pay the yearly fee up front. I'd rather pay a monthly fee as I would then lose less money if it went bust!

mamazaac

closed wrote: »

disk imaging is a better backup, windows7 has it built in if you have it, otherwise try the free software I linked to.

Have just recently got a pc with Windows 7 and didn't realise this. Have searched disk imaging in 'help' but nothing comes up. Please can you tell me how to access it and does it back up the whole system or just things like photos and documents?

Many thanks in advance.

free4440273

mamazaac wrote: »

Have just recently got a pc with Windows 7 and didn't realise this. Have searched disk imaging in 'help' but nothing comes up. Please can you tell me how to access it and does it back up the whole system or just things like photos and documents?

Many thanks in advance.

decent free alternative /

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

Richie-from-the-Boro

mamazaac wrote: »

Have just recently got a pc with Windows 7 and didn't realise this. Have searched disk imaging in 'help' but nothing comes up. Please can you tell me how to access it and does it back up the whole system or just things like photos and documents?

Many thanks in advance.

Control panel / backup & restore icon

Paul12

This is an excellent article. It's very informative. Thanks.

hostertlady

does everyone leave their external hard drives plugged in all the time?? do you have it running alonside your computer.....