Backup software

wesgardner · Posted: Apr 16, 2007 6:07 am Post subject: Backup software

Hey All,

What do you use? I just need to back up a relatively small hard drive (no bigger than 160 -200 gig) for my wife's consulting business. It would be cool if it would do it automatically at night or something.

I used to use Retrospect years ago on my Mac system but have since switched to PC...I've also heard good things about Norton Ghost...

Chavez, help me buddy....

Thanks

Wes

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

wesgardner, Ghost (or whatever they are calling it now) works great. But Ghost is intended for those who want to capture an image of their entire hard drive, which requires the computer to be in a pre-OS-load state. I believe that the consumer version of Ghost also has an automated data backup suite built in, but that is not the true intent of the program, and it is an existing function of Windows anyhow.

Which brings me to my suggestion:

If all you are trying to do is backup data, you may want to just use the Backup program that is built in to Windows.

If you want to go above and beyond that, and have the ability to grab a full image of the drive, then by all means get Ghost.

wesgardner · Posted: Apr 16, 2007 8:15 am Post subject:

chavez,

Yep, just backing up data...we had a little "hickup" this past weekend but were able to suck the data off the crashed hard drive....now I'm going to back up my data... Shocked

Jensen · Posted: Apr 16, 2007 12:09 pm Post subject:

norton ghost works fine, it creates a full image of your harddrive and can be scheduled to make regular backups at whatever time you want.

b_girl · Posted: Apr 27, 2007 1:51 pm Post subject:

I wouldn't use Ghost - if you're just wanting to back up data there's no sense in creating an entire image. It would be best to just use actual backup software that allows you to select what you want to back up and what you don't.

At my old company we just used NT Backup - some people may think it's a crap product, but honestly, it worked like a charm. We ran daily backups to tape. For most of our clients we'd do a full backup every day, but for the occasional one we'd do an incremental backup. So yeah... that's my suggestion.