Other than Acronis Backup what would you choose?

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Hi all.

As per my subject line, other than Acronis Backup what would you choose?.
The only fault I have is the incremental backups being to large and all to
often I have to delete some of these to make room on the backup drive.
Backing up to a 120 GB drive same size as the user drive.


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SG said:
Hi all.

As per my subject line, other than Acronis Backup what would you choose?.
The only fault I have is the incremental backups being to large and all to
often I have to delete some of these to make room on the backup drive.
Backing up to a 120 GB drive same size as the user drive.


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All the best,
SG

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https://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/
Want to keep up with the latest news from MS?
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Just type in Microsoft
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You may have a lot of compressed files on the drive which is why this is
happening. My incremental backups on a weekly basis for 100 gb are about 10
gb additional data...of course if you change a bunch of huge files, they are
going to get backed up and will take space! However, this is not a problem
specific to Acronis.
 
Hi all.

As per my subject line, other than Acronis Backup what would you choose?.
The only fault I have is the incremental backups being to large and all to
often I have to delete some of these to make room on the backup drive.
Backing up to a 120 GB drive same size as the user drive.
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I doubt that you'll find a better one. Solution is to get a larger
drive to backup to.
 
Nothing.

In my case it does everything I need it to do. All I do is manual "full"
backups, overwriting an older one if necessary. I always have 3-5 full
backups in various stages of system development. With good notes as to what
is in each backup I have options as to where my system will be when I do a
recovery.
 
Hi Paul,

A bigger drive is a solution, not the one I'm looking for, but thanks for
the reply.
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Then just do full backups. If you only have room for one, then
overwrite it with the new one.
 
Then just do full backups. If you only have room for one, then
overwrite it with the new one.
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I'm a very conservative person, so I think overwriting one backup with
the next one is a dangerous, and therefore poor, thing to do. My
concern is that a hardware failure can wipe out both the previous
backup and the current one simultaneously. Yes, there's an extra cost
to having two backup drives, but I think it's worth the extra cost and
that's my preference. It permits alternation of the drives, so
creating a backup doesn't also wipe out the previous one, but the one
before that.
 
SG said:
Hi all.

As per my subject line, other than Acronis Backup what would you
choose?. The only fault I have is the incremental backups being to large
and all to often I have to delete some of these to make room on the
backup drive. Backing up to a 120 GB drive same size as the user drive.
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Take a look at this Backup for Workgroups by Lockstep.

http://www.backup-for-workgroups.com/index.html

It's a little pricey at $99 for a single PC but I know for a fact that
it works well. We use it here at our company to backup four servers.
Of course with licenses to backup SQL and multiple servers, external
drives and such we spent quite a bit more than $99. But it beats the
hell out of the old tape backup system that we had.
It's quick, compresses the backup and has multiple storage options, as
well as, drive spanning capabilities. It can also backup open files. It
keeps a new versions (we have ours set for 10) of the file each time
it changes. So if a file never changes it get backed up once. if it
changes everyday then it gets backup everyday. So at the very least I
have 10 copies of a file that changes everyday. All of this data can
then be mirrored automatically to another drive that can be taken off site.
We use 3 external usb drives and rotate the second. One is always off site.

Standard disclaimer:
No association or renumeration from yada yada. Just a satisfied user.

gls858
 
I'm a very conservative person, so I think overwriting one backup with
the next one is a dangerous, and therefore poor, thing to do. My
concern is that a hardware failure can wipe out both the previous
backup and the current one simultaneously.
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I share your conservatism AND your concerns. I have plenty of drive
space to create backups on, and I never overwrite one when creating a
new backup.

When creating new full backups (usually weekly), I keep the previous
one and all of its incrementals... when it's finished, I only delete
the incrementals. I currently have 4 full backups on one of three
extra internal drives, with the most recent one duplicated on an
external drive.

The OP appears to not want to spend the relatively small amount of
money neede to get a larger drive, so the only options open are to
either keep deleting incrementals and creating new ones, or to
overwrite the backup and start a new string.
 
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