Backup and Restore

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Hello,


Windows XP SP2 - Home Edition
I thought I would be a good girl and come up with a decent and efficient
backup system for my computer. I have used the facility/program called
Backup on previous versions of Windows before, but sadly could not find this
program in the Accessories Folder where I expected it to be. On doing some
research I have discovered that it's not even installed routinely, but that
if you want to use it, you have to put the Windows XP CD in the drive and
install it. I am dismayed - such an important little program does not come
with a normal installation!

Sadly, my computer arrived with XP already installed and therefore I do not
have a CD. Is there any way I can install Backup? If not, can anyone else
recommend a similar backup program?

Thanks
Laura TD
 
laura said:
Hello,


Windows XP SP2 - Home Edition
I thought I would be a good girl and come up with a decent and
efficient backup system for my computer. I have used the
facility/program called Backup on previous versions of Windows before,
but sadly could not find this program in the Accessories Folder where
I expected it to be. On doing some research I have discovered that
it's not even installed routinely, but that if you want to use it, you
have to put the Windows XP CD in the drive and install it. I am
dismayed - such an important little program does not come with a
normal installation!

Sadly, my computer arrived with XP already installed and therefore I
do not have a CD. Is there any way I can install Backup? If not, can
anyone else recommend a similar backup program?
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NTBackup should be in the Value Added folder. Since you don't have a cd,
you can do a search on your hard drive but it might not have been
included by the OEM. Actually, NTBackup isn't particularly useful
compared to other current backup programs since it was really designed
for NT systems with tape drives. I've used SecondCopy on a lot of
clients' machines and it is quite inexpensive, very easy to use, and
scalable. One thing I particularly like about SC is that it doesn't put
the backup in a proprietary format. Proprietary format backups require
you to have the program with which you made the backup installed on
whatever machine to which you want to restore the backup. Get SC from
www.centered.com. Others have recommended Backup My PC from
http://www.stompsoft.com/backupmypc.html.

Malke
 
Many thanks for swift reply and explanations. I did do a search for NTBackup
on my hard drive to no avail. I'll look into your other suggestions. At the
moment I just copy and paste the folders I want to backup onto a CD, or DVD
and I've just bought an external 40Gig USB hard drive, but it's still a very
manual process and really I would love to just back up things that have
changed since the last backup but there doesn't seem to be an efficient or
easy way to do that.

Thanks for your help
Laura
 
laura said:
Many thanks for swift reply and explanations. I did do a search for NTBackup
on my hard drive to no avail. I'll look into your other suggestions. At the
moment I just copy and paste the folders I want to backup onto a CD, or DVD
and I've just bought an external 40Gig USB hard drive, but it's still a very
manual process and really I would love to just back up things that have
changed since the last backup but there doesn't seem to be an efficient or
easy way to do that.

Thanks for your help
Laura
Click to expand...

Unfortunately, OEMs are not required to include the backup utility, and some
don't. I've had good luck with Avantrix Backup Plus, which is inexpensive
and writes out to what are really ordinary zip files.

As long as you have packet writing software installed (like InCD or
DirectCD) you can use the scheduler and back up to CDs or DVDs.

http://www.backupplus.net/

HTH
-pk
 
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