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Old 15-05-2005, 23:28   #1
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Backup suggestions

Hi All

I normally back up everything tapes on my server.

I have a customer who wnats to backup his computer onto a removable harddrive, you know one of these usb thingys. what would be nice is to do one complete backup and then incrementals from that.

What software would you suggest, preferable free..

Many thanks
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Re: Backup suggestions

Windows Backup allows you to do full and incremental backups and is free LOL You just need to make sure you run it in advanced and then go into options to choose what type of backup you want to do.
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Re: Backup suggestions

I was wondering if NT backup was the best way....
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Re: Backup suggestions

What software is running on the pc that is to be backed up? Don't know if it's same as XPs' backup tool but if it is this and this give a good guide to what it can do and how you can schedule it to run.
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