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    A Good Backup Software?

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by Toyo, Nov 19, 2009.

  1. Toyo

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    I am looking for a good backup program that will backup at certain times, do incremental and have a choice of different types of media to back up to. I have a subsription to Idrive but it eats up alot of my Verizon Mbps. I have several different hard drives that I can use but I do not like the software that they use or have with them. The Lacie rugged HDD is great, but the software is awful. Let me know what you guys use and if you like it. Isnt it called incremental if it only backups the new data from that day after you have done the 1st complete backup? I think that's right. Throw your ideas out there please.

    Cheers!
     
    Toyo, Nov 19, 2009
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  2. nukinfuts29

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    Acronis for sure.
     
    nukinfuts29, Nov 19, 2009
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  3. Silver Trooper

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    Acronis is great for cloning complete drives, not sure how good it is doing incremental daily back-ups. One of the other guys should chime in here shortly.
     
    Silver Trooper, Nov 19, 2009
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  4. nukinfuts29

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    Been using it for years with great success. Ghost isn't bad, but i don't like it compared to Acronis.
     
    nukinfuts29, Nov 19, 2009
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  5. Silver Trooper

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    Agree, I used Ghost once or twice until I found Acronis and then there was no going back.
     
    Silver Trooper, Nov 19, 2009
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    Acronis® True Image Home 2010
    Works great! + W7 support
     
    h3lpmedic, Nov 19, 2009
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    Ditto Acronis
     
    KLonsdale, Nov 19, 2009
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  8. Toughbook

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    I am an Acronis user also... But I have no need for backup as everything is in three places! I use it mostly to clone... But it is affordable and VERY intuitive. (Which you CANNOT say about Ghost!) You'll need to break out your slide rule on that one. I guess unless you are used to it... For a starter... Acronis for sure.
     
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    Just three?! I am so paranoid about data/pictures/ loss that I have four different external drives that I use, two of which have identical data and one that I only switch on when I am adding files. I keep that one switched off and unplugged when not in use so if there is a power spike/virus or any other "force of nature" that strikes the others, I still have one hard drive that is unaffected. I am almost to the point of buying the fireproof box to store one or two of the drives in when not in use so that if there is a fire or flood, it is safely locked away. Oh dear, I think I hear the black helos coming...must hide this data...now where did I put that USB stick?
     
    Silver Trooper, Nov 20, 2009
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    three aint enough. a few years back i lost 4TB's of information when a lightning storm in fort myers knocked out my computer, unrecoverable hdd. I go to use one of my two externals, with full backups, and its a dead drive, no clue what happened. Halfway thru the second drive copying to the new laptop the cat somehow gets into the 5 or so inches behind the desk and knocks the drive down from its very secure hiding place, trashing the platters.

    Needless to say, i no longer live in FL or own a cat.
     
    nukinfuts29, Nov 20, 2009
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    billlayman, Nov 20, 2009
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  12. Toyo

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    You guys are correct on that one. Acronis is the daddy. Very easy to set up compared to alot of others out there. There are still some parts I don't quite understand fully, so I know now where to ask! I always had the impression that Acronis was mostly just for disc imaging. Thanks for the heads up.
     
    Toyo, Nov 23, 2009
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    h3lpmedic, Nov 26, 2009
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  14. Toughbook

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    You want to talk about paranoid.... I have a buddy that just built a RAID 6 array! 5 drives.... A 40GB boot drive that just goes to sleep after booting... Then 4, 1TB Hard Drives.... After all the striping and stuff... He has 1.8TB of usable data space. He can lose up to two drives and STILL keep all his data... He can also pop out any of the 1tb drives and pop in a 2TB and it will rebuild.... So he can increase at any time. He runs OpenFiler software and I gotta say... The propeller heads did their job well on that... You almost need a degree to understand all the stuff in it.

    Personally... I like Mozy... At least the hot chick in the commercials.... :)
     
    Toughbook, Nov 26, 2009
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