Backing Up

Arista

I have in the past used the free storage available at 123reg.

http://www.123-reg.co.uk/online-storage-drive/

It used to be free when you bought a domain, but as far as I can tell thats not the case anymore.

Worth a try.

d900

if you fancy being big and brave
amazon s3 and jungledisk work very nicely i got a silly amount of stuff on my s3 account and pay around 3pound a month i also have all my familys stuff on it

fwor

For those who are into Open Source stuff:

Clonezilla is a frontend for the "hard to get to grips with" PartImage.

It copes with just about every filesystem you would want (all of the main Windows and Linux ones, but sorry no Mac support) and can do partition and disk images, with or without compression.

The user interface does not look great, but - having just done a test backup image of an 80 Gb drive and a restore to a different drive - it certainly works.

Ice_2

SimonJ80 wrote: »

Has anybody used BT's Digital Vault backup software? It is included with their broadband package I think. I was considering getting an external hard drive but I'm not sure which is the best option.

what the whole 5gb's wow...
not enough for vista...:rotfl:

Ice_2

Hi guys laptops are new to me...but got a nice shiny new lappy but NO disc's...anyway its windows ultimate with acer stuff now the acer stuff is easy just get from acer and put it on a disc...so thats recovery disc number one ...:jnow to get a recovery disc of ultimate How ...I have been to the control panel...and gone to restore thingy...but it isn't giving me the option to recover just windows ultimate I have made a backup on the hdd of what is on my system already...newly installed today...but that's all it'll let me do apart from the system restorepoint...
so how do I make a copy of windows ultimate in the event of me losing my system and need to do a new install...

I do have a copy of windows vista home premium...which according to the vista magazine has the whole kit and cabboodle on you just need the key to unlock which is yours...so if this is true then I have it on that disc already....but I was under the impression that one disc one COA one pc and you cannot reuse on other pc's with other COA's like you can with xp...
any ideas on this...:D

11gardir

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-drive-imaging-program.htm
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-backup-program

^ Techsupportalert has a couple of good lists of backup software.

PROLIANT

If you want the ultimate industry standard backup soloution go for a flavour of Symantec Backup Exec, proven reliability, open file options and entire network backlup it is very hard to beat, you will be looking around £250 for a copy but it depends on how much you value your data.

Marty999

I agree with Proliant as we use Backup Exec at work too, it's very good indeed if you need that degree of data back up. Might be overkill for the average user though.

Ice_2

Well after getting a new laptop aweek ago that came with no info...except which I found on the laptop...it was a 500 page user guide...also came with no software...so tonight I have successfully used the erecovery on it and re-installed the software + acer drivers...and made a recovery disc well 2 as the file was 8gbs big...thats all the acer drivers and windows vista ultimate I am feeling rather please with myself...woohoo...
:j

Marty_J

Anyone using Time Machine?

I'm ashamed to admit I haven't for want of a free eternal HDD.