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    EBackup question

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by lencuff, Jul 27, 2008.

  1. lencuff

    lencuff Notebook Enthusiast

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    Is it possible to configure this to backup to an external disk? I've got a little gizmo which allows me to plug in a SATA drive via the usb port. Would be nice to back up to that and then put it safely away somewhere but I don't get any
    options when I start a backup.
    If this is a no go then what backup software does any recommend to do this?
    I've got Genie Backup 8 which is Vista compatible but I don't think that does a 'snapshot backup?

    TIA
     
    lencuff, Jul 27, 2008
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    hoggie old boy

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    i just put an image of the DVD's over to an external HDD via USB and have recovered the laptop from that.
    just set USB to first boot device
     
    hoggie, Jul 27, 2008
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  3. lencuff

    lencuff Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well unless I've missed something, that's a lot of DVD's? It reckons a full
    backup is going to need 30.9Gb !! Seems daft that I can't backup it up
    to the 250Gb external drive I can connect via USB rather than use the fitted
    disk space/or loads of DVD's !
     
    lencuff, Jul 27, 2008
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