[RTC List] PC backup utility: recommendations?

[Dwight Winegar]

Kevin.

You just gave me an idea for Joel and Lynn, with regard to his  
question.  What you spoke of backups for your laptop I immediately  
thought of SoftRAID, which although it is a Mac OS product, the  
concept might have something available on the PC side.  I'm still not  
quite sure just what Joel is trying to do "exactly" since he mentions  
about "booting" from the back-up drive.  However, lawyers have been  
using SoftRAID with their MacBookPros and PowerBooks in case they are  
stolen, and no important data remains on the internal HD.   The way  
I've seen SoftRAID set-up with RAID 1 is that you need the external  
drive to boot.  Steal the laptop, and you still have all of your  
files, and the thief has to reinstall the OS to use it.   I'm  
wondering if such a software scheme exists for the PC.

- Dwight


On 25 Jul 2009, at 10:29 PM, Kevin Nelson wrote:

> Until I got a laptop that I often carried around, I didn’t think too  
> much about doing backups aside from the standard USB hard-drive  
> system.
>
> But the laptop situation caused me to rethink the situation. Thus, I  
> now use Carbonite on my laptop, simply because it does backups  
> whenever I am using my laptop near a wireless internet location. I  
> have over 100 GB backed up.
>
> -Kevin
>
> From: peter at linlorlabs.com [mailto:peter at linlorlabs.com]
> Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 5:40 PM
> To: Joel Mielke
> Cc: list at redwoodtech.org
> Subject: Re: [RTC List] PC backup utility: recommendations?
>
> 'Retrospect' has been a player in the backup biz for years.  I  
> haven't tried this version but it might meet your needs:
>
> http://www.retrospect.com/products/software/retroforwin/
>
> According to their online information:
>
> - Disaster recovery - Purchase the Retrospect Disaster Recovery add- 
> on in order to create a bootable disc for Bare Metal Restores on  
> Windows computers (Some editions include Disaster Recovery as a  
> feature)
> - patented incremental backup technology
>
> -Peter
>
>
> On Jul 25, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Joel Mielke wrote:
>
>
> Can anyone recommend a backup utility for a PC running Windows XP  
> (32 bit)?
> I'm a Mac user, but we also have a PC that we just purchased a  
> Western Digital backup drive for.
> We want to:
> Create a bootable drive
> Update only the files that have changed (deleting, not duplicating,  
> files that have moved).
>
> I use SuperDuper for the Mac. It has a simple, elegant interface.
>
> thanks for any suggestions,
> Joel Mielke
> www.carsonparkdesign.com
>
>
>
>
>
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