Best back up software

[kaisterkai]

Hey~

I would like to know what is the best back up software for Window XP... Because I want to back up.. and there are so many programs that I can use.. back I do not know which one of the many is the best one..

Thanks

 

[|tera|]

Small in size and works quite cool: Freeware too.

http://www.gfi.com/backup-hm

Installed it on a pc over the weekend. Works fine.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

You first need to indentify what type of backups you want to do. Do you need to recover across OSs or even just different versions (XP / Vista).

Are you looking for incremental or full?

Are you looking for rollback recover (shadow copy)?

etc ...


This all determines what you should look at.

 

[ponder]

Small in size and works quite cool: Freeware too.

http://www.gfi.com/backup-hm

Installed it on a pc over the weekend. Works fine.

+1

Been using it on several PC's belonging to other people over the last 3 weeks or so and it's great piece of software. Very light on resources and lot's of flexibility backup wise.

 

[Pilgrim]

Also try https://www.crashplan.com/

You can backup the computers on a network to each other, or you can backup to a folder.

 

[LinuxMan]

GFI Cannot handle large backups like 50GB :/... tested it... if you using zip folders they crash terribly....

 

[dequadin]

Does anyone know of any free/open source backup software that can do incremental backups?

 

[Random717]

Does anyone know of any free/open source backup software that can do incremental backups?

Cobian Backup

 

[Nod]

Bacula (www.bacula.org) also works very well.

 

[ponder]

GFI Cannot handle large backups like 50GB :/... tested it... if you using zip folders they crash terribly....

Why use compression as it slows things down? Backed up over 200GB on a mates PC last weekend to his external HD.

 

[kaisterkai]

I see.. wow.. there are so much to backing up...

But the main thing is just that I want all the drivers to be there.. and also... I also want the programs to be there.. like word 2007, photo shop... etc.. (well will the game be included?)

Anyway, Thanks

 

[kaisterkai]

Oh yes, and if I do back up... will my office (haha not word) the key.. will it still be the same? I mean I do not want to waste another serial key.. mm..

Thanks

 

[riscbroker]

I see.. wow.. there are so much to backing up...

But the main thing is just that I want all the drivers to be there.. and also... I also want the programs to be there.. like word 2007, photo shop... etc.. (well will the game be included?)

Anyway, Thanks

This is a little different to data backup - have a Google at Clonezilla

 

[FuNkEr]

Allway Sync
www.allwaysync.com

Pretty neat program!

 

[CrzWaco]

Acronis True Image Home

This is not free but its worth the money for it.

 

[ponder]

But the main thing is just that I want all the drivers to be there..

??? WTF is it with people and backing up drivers? They get updated the whole time so it's best to just download them from the chipset manufacturers site.

 

[Borrels]

Cobian Backup

Cobian work well and easy to use. I ditched it though, as it couldn't backup to a network drive. Using Synchronize It at the moment.

 

[Random717]

Cobian work well and easy to use. I ditched it though, as it couldn't backup to a network drive. Using Synchronize It at the moment.

I only use it to back up to the network?
You can run commands before and after the backup, so I have scripts that map and then disconnect the network drive...

 

[Techrat]

Acronis True Image Home

This is not free but its worth the money for it.

You can get a free version from Western Digital or Seagate if you have one of their respective HDDs. That is anyone can download it but it will only work if you their drive.

 

[DJNgoma]

You can get a free version from Western Digital or Seagate if you have one of their respective HDDs. That is anyone can download it but it will only work if you their drive.

Thank you for the info. Any links please?