thegman89 Posted May 15, 2008 Report Posted May 15, 2008 What are people using? Figured I should probably get a backup in order as my laptop HDD sounds dead..... Quote
fushion julz Posted May 15, 2008 Report Posted May 15, 2008 If your HDD is already dead then, expensive solutions aside, you're probably already fecked... However, assuming you have access and an alternate storeage (external HDD or the like), then I'd recommend Norton Ghost and a boot disc (CD or floppy) that boots the machine to an external device. Quote
Crispy Posted May 15, 2008 Report Posted May 15, 2008 Just copy the data off to an external disk/flash drive for now, then sort out the backups. I use Veritas Backup Exec which I'm guessing will be overkill for what you want. Acronis True Image is rated highly (although I've not used it, I know people who do). You take an image of your machine as it is now, then take differential backups (i.e. backup data that's changed since you took the image). When you need to recover the whole machine you can restore the image then the latest backup. It's pretty cheap too. Quote
Bertie Posted May 15, 2008 Report Posted May 15, 2008 i use norton ghost, which is even cheaper if you "share it" Quote
Draggin Posted May 15, 2008 Report Posted May 15, 2008 Sync back http://www.2brightsparks.com Its free!! Tim Quote
Spike J Posted May 15, 2008 Report Posted May 15, 2008 I was looking in to an external hard drive for backing up my laptop and main PC but after reading a lot of negative reviews on almost every make there is I decided to buy an old server off ebay. I got a compaq proliant ML530 with 2 X 1ghz Xeon, 3gig of ram and 12, 18.2 gig hard drives. I set two of the drives to raid 1 for the OS and the other 10 to raid 5. If a disc goes down I dont loose any data. How much?......£80 all in, cheaper than a lot of the single external drives I looked at. An old machine but does the job well:) Quote
Badger Posted May 15, 2008 Report Posted May 15, 2008 Acronis all the way. I used to use Norton Ghost, but the first time I tried to restore it said that the backup was corrupt so I went for an earlier backup and it said that was corrupt too. Norton gave me my £25 back but I still ended up with a dead PC and vowed never to use their products again Perhaps it is better now, but it turned out there was a whole forum related to the misery that Ghost had caused their users at the time. Steve. Quote
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