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Backup solutions - looking for some advice
I am running Vista Ultimate 32 bit and have a NAS device attached
to my network on which I would like to have weekly "full" backups and daily incrementals. I have tried Cobian (free) and Acronis Home (not free) and neither of these meet my needs. Cobian was fine except that it tended to hang when trying to communicate with my NAS. Acronis was just slow, 3 days to do a full backup (My Documents and Outlook App Settings). Not acceptable. Can anyone recommend a good solution that will allow me to create weekly full (as explained above, only My Documents and one other file are required for my backup) and daily incrementals and have them stored either via drive mapping or ftp to my NAS. Both of these methods work outside of the realm of a backup program so I'm happy with using either. Thanks -- ************************************************* * Cranky Geeks Rule http://www.crankygeeks.com * I want to be a Cranky Geek * running Ubuntu 8.04, Windows Vista and Mac OS X * on one wireless network, all talking nicely ************************************************* |
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Backup solutions - looking for some advice
Try one of the Vista groups!
-- All the Best and Happy Holidays, Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP) Taskbar Repair Tool Plus! http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm "John The Geek" wrote in message 05.209... I am running Vista Ultimate 32 bit and have a NAS device attached to my network on which I would like to have weekly "full" backups and daily incrementals. I have tried Cobian (free) and Acronis Home (not free) and neither of these meet my needs. Cobian was fine except that it tended to hang when trying to communicate with my NAS. Acronis was just slow, 3 days to do a full backup (My Documents and Outlook App Settings). Not acceptable. Can anyone recommend a good solution that will allow me to create weekly full (as explained above, only My Documents and one other file are required for my backup) and daily incrementals and have them stored either via drive mapping or ftp to my NAS. Both of these methods work outside of the realm of a backup program so I'm happy with using either. Thanks -- ************************************************* * Cranky Geeks Rule http://www.crankygeeks.com * I want to be a Cranky Geek * running Ubuntu 8.04, Windows Vista and Mac OS X * on one wireless network, all talking nicely ************************************************* |
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Backup solutions - looking for some advice
"John The Geek" wrote in message 05.209... I am running Vista Ultimate 32 bit and have a NAS device attached to my network on which I would like to have weekly "full" backups and daily incrementals. I have tried Cobian (free) and Acronis Home (not free) and neither of these meet my needs. Cobian was fine except that it tended to hang when trying to communicate with my NAS. Acronis was just slow, 3 days to do a full backup (My Documents and Outlook App Settings). Not acceptable. Can anyone recommend a good solution that will allow me to create weekly full (as explained above, only My Documents and one other file are required for my backup) and daily incrementals and have them stored either via drive mapping or ftp to my NAS. Both of these methods work outside of the realm of a backup program so I'm happy with using either. Thanks I've used Acronis for several years on XP and it has *never* been slow. Once I set it for maximum compression and it crawled, so I cancelled it and left it at the default settings. Could this have been your problem? Or, perhaps, the version--I'm using Home V. 9 and I believe 10 had some serious issues. |
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Backup solutions - looking for some advice
On 2008-12-13, John The Geek wrote:
I am running Vista Ultimate 32 bit and have a NAS device attached to my network on which I would like to have weekly "full" backups and daily incrementals. I have tried Cobian (free) and Acronis Home (not free) and neither of these meet my needs. Cobian was fine except that it tended to hang when trying to communicate with my NAS. Acronis was just slow, 3 days to do a full backup (My Documents and Outlook App Settings). Not acceptable. Can anyone recommend a good solution that will allow me to create weekly full (as explained above, only My Documents and one other file are required for my backup) and daily incrementals and have them stored either via drive mapping or ftp to my NAS. Both of these methods work outside of the realm of a backup program so I'm happy with using either. Thanks Sorry for the gaff. I will repost this in the Vista group. Again, sorry for the error. -- Flaky 8.10 ..back to 8.04 but not giving up on Ubuntu Converted Vista machine to Linux in 30 minutes Fully configured in less than 2 hrs RLU 451587 |
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Backup solutions - looking for some advice
No problem. Just figured you would get more info there.
-- All the Best and Happy Holidays, Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP) Taskbar Repair Tool Plus! http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm "John The Geek" wrote in message ... On 2008-12-13, John The Geek wrote: I am running Vista Ultimate 32 bit and have a NAS device attached to my network on which I would like to have weekly "full" backups and daily incrementals. I have tried Cobian (free) and Acronis Home (not free) and neither of these meet my needs. Cobian was fine except that it tended to hang when trying to communicate with my NAS. Acronis was just slow, 3 days to do a full backup (My Documents and Outlook App Settings). Not acceptable. Can anyone recommend a good solution that will allow me to create weekly full (as explained above, only My Documents and one other file are required for my backup) and daily incrementals and have them stored either via drive mapping or ftp to my NAS. Both of these methods work outside of the realm of a backup program so I'm happy with using either. Thanks Sorry for the gaff. I will repost this in the Vista group. Again, sorry for the error. -- Flaky 8.10 ..back to 8.04 but not giving up on Ubuntu Converted Vista machine to Linux in 30 minutes Fully configured in less than 2 hrs RLU 451587 |
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