Advice on data back-ups please

andygrif · 30-08-2004, 23:44

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.

Richard M · 30-08-2004, 23:57

Norton Ghost?

andygrif · 31-08-2004, 00:07

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

Shaun · 31-08-2004, 02:01

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

andygrif · 31-08-2004, 15:32

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

MetaWraith · 31-08-2004, 18:13

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

andygrif · 31-08-2004, 23:51

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

SOSAGES · 01-09-2004, 09:30

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

Theodoric · 01-09-2004, 22:26

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Originally Posted by andygrif

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 scheduled tasks once a month.

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

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.

andygrif · 03-09-2004, 10:02

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