Which program will fill these backup needs?

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Another good option for this is Second Copy from www.centered.com.
It's a file-based backup program and will also zip the backups if
desired, though zipping is very time consuming for large amounts of
data. It will keep up to 25 archival versions of files and archives
deleted files if you want, and has very flexible scheduling. I find
it a perfect complement for True Image, and use it to back up
important files from drives that are too big to image.

I don't know how it compares to these other programs, as I haven't
used them, but they have a 30 day evaluation copy.
 
Martin Jay said:
I'm not fortunate enough to be using SP2 at the moment. I've just got
back home from an extended trip away. XP is trying to auto upgrade to
SP2 at the moment, but has stalled at 0% for the past three days. :(
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I turned off auto-update the day I installed XP Pro SP1. I downloaded SP2.
This thread is helping me decide how to get myself a reliable way to revert
back to SP1 should the upgrade go sour. System Restore has not worked for
too many people.

If you have not yet done so, you may want to check
microsoft.public.windowsupdate . Plenty of reports about install problems,
and solutions. It may help.
 
Hi Peter,

You write:
Ghost incremental backup works at file level, TI incremental backup at
disk
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I'm curious why you say this about Ghost... the G9 documentation says that
an incremental backup contains "a snapshot of the sectors that have changed
on a drive since the baseline backup or the last incremental backup was
taken.". It is integrated with a baseline backup to produce an updated
image. This does not sound like a file level backup to me and is really a
great concept if you think about it...

-- John
 
RE/

I'm no expert - and you probably just tacked the "incremental/differential" part
on as a nice-to-have for cases where new stuff is installed on the system...but
just in case: I make a distinction between data and system backups.
Different needs, probably different optimal solutions.

I'm using Retrospect for data, DriveImage 7 for system.
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Which version of Retrospect? I use Retro Professional 6.0 and I'm
thinking about the 6.5 upgrade.

Do you have multiple drives for programs and data. How do you decide
which files on C are 'data,' since some programs insist on storing
data in a subdir of their main dir or in the Programs and Settings
folder.
I have no love for Retrospect but, truth-be-told, it has gotten me through a
couple of drive failures with (apparently...how does one really know?) no lost
data.
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me too. No drive failures (yet ...) but plenty of operator failures
and some lousy Quicken software.
 
Retrospect is rather expensive when compared to other solutions (like NTI
and such). What drew you to this as your data backup choice?
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How much is your data worth? Your time?
 
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