What is the best Backup Prog to get ?
Must be quick , easy ... Did I say quick and easy ?
Sunday, October 19, 2008 by mike b1954 | Discussion: Community
Ok, guys and gals ... a little conundrum for y'all !!
I have a new Acer PC ... 
Pleased as punch with it .. Vista Home Premium .... ( couldn't afford Ultimate ..)
I am looking for a Downloadable FREE Backup prog so that I can , of course , do a full backup of my system ... progs , windows , et.al .... Reason being that the one that came with the PC is unintelligible ... and has a pretty awful interface ..
Hence my post ... I have used Nero ( on XP) but I have heard that Nero and Vista do not play well together ..
So that's it ...
In one question ...
" What is the best ,free , downloadable Backup prog , that I can get hold of ... ? "
Reply #2 Sunday, October 19, 2008 4:00 PM
Cobian Backup.....Free.......http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Cobian_Backup/1016777450/1
I've used it for a couple years works great.
Reply #4 Sunday, October 19, 2008 7:11 PM
Depends...if it's to an external drive it's regulated by your connection more than the software. Internal drive to Internal drive is very fast. I don't use compression so I'm not sure if there's a performance hit for that.
Reply #5 Sunday, October 19, 2008 7:23 PM
Ah .. that's interesting to know ... I do have an external 500Gb Maxtor ... I am not too sure what you mean by Compression ... is it Zip files 
Reply #7 Sunday, October 19, 2008 7:44 PM
Ahhh.... well thanks for the info , mate .. I appreciate ya popping in ... I will try the Cobian first thing tomorrow ..I will keep you posted as to how I get on !!
Thanks again ... Regards ,
Mike
( ps If folk throw up a couple of others I will try them too ... )
Reply #8 Sunday, October 19, 2008 8:43 PM
The latest versions (8.0+) should work fine on Vista. However, I recommend spending some money and getting a real good backup program.
Either Acronis True Image or Genie-Soft Backup Manager.
Reply #9 Sunday, October 19, 2008 11:50 PM
Well , Thanks Jafo !! I went for Genie -Soft backup manager ..here in the UK it was £35
Complete System Backup and verify in 43 minutes,39 seconds ... all my media , extra apps like OD etc, DS , 24 .6 gb ~ all to my external Maxtor HD !
Most excellent ...!! ~ ~ ( and that was the Trial before you buy , too ...)
and another thing , the online tuts were very informative ... and easy to understand ...
Lantec, it was as you said .. Cobian .. 1hr 27 minutes ...
Cheers bud !!
Reply #11 Monday, October 20, 2008 12:20 AM
.......that hurt
IT'S ALIVE!!!!!! 
Reply #14 Monday, October 20, 2008 8:40 AM
Good Grief .... OMG Darn damn and blast ... Sorry about that guys ...
It was well past 4 am when I posted that I was falling into my keyboard... ID ... sorry ...
Thanks , Island Dog ....
Reply #15 Friday, November 7, 2008 12:35 PM
Acronis True Image is a great imaging program that can really save your bacon.
A simple BU program called Second Copy has worked great for me for years.
Reply #16 Friday, November 7, 2008 12:59 PM
My desktop just totally died and I was able to completely restore it with ShadowProtect Desktop Edition. It wasn't cheap but it was worth every penny. Top choice by CNET. I also use SeondCopy to backup personal files to an external drive. Don't try doing back-ups on the cheap. It's not worth it....speaking as someone who's lost more than 1TB of data to a dead external drive.,,,more than once. External hard drives have nosedived in price. I now backup everything I don't want to lose to at least 2 external drives.
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Reply #1 Sunday, October 19, 2008 3:08 PM
woops double post sorry !