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Windows XP Backup and Compression - what's am I doing wrong?
Hello,
I'm trying to backup My Documents using Windows XP Backup, but I need to compress the backup otherwise it will take up about 70GB of space, which I don't have. I've looked at the comrpession setting under Backup Advanced Mode Backup (tab) Start Backup Advanced. But the option "If possible compress the backup data to save space" is greyed out. I had a look on the Web and from what I've read it looks as if you can only compress backups if you're backing up to tape! Is this correct? If, as I hope, it isn't, how can I compress the backup files I make with Windows XP backup? Any help much appreciated. Thanks Karl |
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Windows XP Backup and Compression - what's am I doing wrong?
"Karl" wrote:
I'm trying to backup My Documents using Windows XP Backup, but I need to compress the backup otherwise it will take up about 70GB of space, which I don't have. Honestly: backing up data to the _same_ disk is useless. I would get an external USB disk and backup to this media. Norton Ghost is a good software to do this since the NTBACKUP which comes with Windows is very limited. |
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Windows XP Backup and Compression - what's am I doing wrong?
Is Norton Ghost a good backup utility to make incremental backups to my
system? I bought a Western Digital external USB drive, and I'm not pleased with the backup software that comes with it (Retrospect). The documentation is terrible, and I don't understand the functions. "Thorsten Matzner" wrote: "Karl" wrote: I'm trying to backup My Documents using Windows XP Backup, but I need to compress the backup otherwise it will take up about 70GB of space, which I don't have. Honestly: backing up data to the _same_ disk is useless. I would get an external USB disk and backup to this media. Norton Ghost is a good software to do this since the NTBACKUP which comes with Windows is very limited. |
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Windows XP Backup and Compression - what's am I doing wrong?
"novice_geek" wrote: Is Norton Ghost a good backup utility to make incremental backups to my system? I bought a Western Digital external USB drive, and I'm not pleased with the backup software that comes with it (Retrospect). The documentation is terrible, and I don't understand the functions. "Thorsten Matzner" wrote: "Karl" wrote: I'm trying to backup My Documents using Windows XP Backup, but I need to compress the backup otherwise it will take up about 70GB of space, which I don't have. Honestly: backing up data to the _same_ disk is useless. I would get an external USB disk and backup to this media. Norton Ghost is a good software to do this since the NTBACKUP which comes with Windows is very limited. Yes, Ghost does incremental backups and is very easy to use. The other good disk imaging software on the market is Acronis TrueImage, I'm fairly sure it does incremental backups too. |
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