Advice on data back-ups please
 

Hello. I'm very bored of trying to get XP's built-in back-up to work how I want it to (which is not complex). So does anyone have any advice they can share as to a good all round, simple, back-up utility.

Preferably freeware.

I don't run passwords on my PCs (Windows back-up doesn't like me for that)

I would like to plonk a CD-R in my 'server' (I use quotes, 'cos it's just an old PC with a big second hard drive in that is shared with other PCs in the workgroup)

I only want a single folder with an important database and its associated files in it backed-up, and want to get it running in schedulled tasks once a month.

Any help you can give will be gratefully rep'd.

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Norton Ghost?

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I thought of that too....but the version I have only seems to recognise fixed discs in my main PC, not network shared drives.

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I find Backup Genie great, very simple but gets the job done. Oh and it's free :)

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...43&postcount=8

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That is a superb little app...thanks Dellwear!

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This is a free backup tool that i've recommended to a few people before http://www.freebyte.com/fbbackup/

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Thank you sir. I'll give that a look too.

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get an online backup thing couple of quid a month for the storage u need - and its backed up everyday change by change ..

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What about a batch file with a few lines of Xcopy in it? Xcopy is very flexible; you can do subdirectories and if you want to exclude certain files then there is a /E flag to do this. I haven't tried it, but I assume that you could run the batch file at set intervals using the XP task scheduler.

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Thanks Theodoric...I don't think it will write to a CDr, but I'll give it a go!