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Back up software - recommendations?

Memphis_Bill

By Memphis_Bill,
Posted on: 2010-05-02 10:54 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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I'm looking to replace the back up software I'm using now, Retrospective 6.5 (probably "lite" version), that came with the back up drive I bought years ago. It just spent 21.5 hours doing a full disk duplicate consisting of only 158 gigs. I need something better. What else is good and fast at doing a full disk duplicate?

Teams are the number one killer of soloists.

 

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What version of Windows are you using? 7 comes with a pretty good one (including making a system image) built in - and to all versions, not just "Pro and above unless you know where to dig it out of the CD." (And the XP version = Backup Exec v.6.1, from Veritas/Symantec.)

Other than that, been a while since I've looked.

 

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I'm on XP right now. I do have Windows-7 Home Edition, but I haven't gotten around to installing it yet. So I guess I should check it out before spending more money.

Teams are the number one killer of soloists.

 

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There was a free one I used at one point, I've been trying to find the name of it again. (You could, of course, snag XP's but it's a PITA and has to save an image to a local drive if you don't have a tape drive.) Think this is it. Not sure if it'll meet your needs, but I used it to back up before the win7 upgrade. (Of course, I also upgraded to a clean drive, but I'm picky about having my backups.)