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    Favorite Backup Software

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by RazorsEdge, May 18, 2005.

  1. RazorsEdge

    RazorsEdge Notebook Guru

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    Whats your favorite backup software?
    Two Categories

    1. Software that backs up basically your documents and everyday work. (e.g secondcopy)

    2. Software that will create a clone of your hard drive (e.g. Ghost)
     
    RazorsEdge, May 18, 2005
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  2. rookwood

    rookwood Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have been using Second Copy for years and see no reason to change.
    Cost is right, simple operation, enough options to satisfy my needs.

    I was given a copy of some type of "Ghosting" software by our outside IT company: Don't have time to understand it, don't believe (or hope)I need it.

    Second Copy is very functional and straight forward. In fact, I just voted it my favorite shareware program for the year.
     
    rookwood, May 19, 2005
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  3. bmhome1

    bmhome1 Notebook Consultant

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    Acronis True Image 8.0 is by far the easiest OS backup drive imaging tool.
     
    bmhome1, May 19, 2005
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    pcharouz Notebook Evangelist

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    I use norton ghost 9.0, I dont know about the other but norton ghost is a bottable disk so evan when the computer is totaly mest up you can boot from the cd and you dont have to install windows again
     
    pcharouz, May 22, 2005
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    CSF2005 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ditto about Acronis,, worlds easier than Ghost in my opinion. Acronis is so straightforward, and afterwards you can check the image created, assign a drive letter to it, so you can actually view the directories, it has 4 variations on compression, etc...
     
    CSF2005, May 23, 2005
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    bmhome1 Notebook Consultant

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    Actually, unlike Ghost which requires the original installer CD to boot from, True Image makes the bootable repair CD's right from within the running program, anytime and as many as one wishes. It loads TI into RAM so that backups can then be loaded from either CD or DVD archives.
     
    bmhome1, May 23, 2005
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    Arla Notebook Deity

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    <blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by bmhome1
     
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    Arla, May 23, 2005
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