Other than Acronis Backup what would you choose?

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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http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm

/M

"SG" <> wrote in message
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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.
>
>
> --
> All the best,
> SG
>
> Is your computer system ready for Vista?
> https://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/
> Want to keep up with the latest news from MS?
> http://news.google.com/nwshp?tab=wn&ned=us&topic=t
> Just type in Microsoft
>

"SG" <> wrote in message
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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.
>
>
> --
> All the best,
> SG
>
> Is your computer system ready for Vista?
> https://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/
> Want to keep up with the latest news from MS?
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> Just type in Microsoft
>

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.

On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 00:36:22 -0400, "SG" <> wrote:

>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.

I doubt that you'll find a better one. Solution is to get a larger
drive to backup to.

"Mingus" <> wrote in message
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> http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm
>
> /M
>
> "SG" <> wrote in message
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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.
>>
>>
>> --
>> All the best,
>> SG
>>
>> Is your computer system ready for Vista?
>> https://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/
>> Want to keep up with the latest news from MS?
>> http://news.google.com/nwshp?tab=wn&ned=us&topic=t
>> Just type in Microsoft
>>
>


Mingus,

Thanks for the reply, however driveimage-xml doesn't do incremental backups
which is a must in my case.

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"Paul Montgomery" <> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 00:36:22 -0400, "SG" <> wrote:
>
>>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.
>
> I doubt that you'll find a better one. Solution is to get a larger
> drive to backup to.


Hi Paul,

A bigger drive is a solution, not the one I'm looking for, but thanks for
the reply.

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SG

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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.

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"SG" <> wrote in message
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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.
>
>
> --
> All the best,
> SG
>
> Is your computer system ready for Vista?
> https://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/
> Want to keep up with the latest news from MS?
> http://news.google.com/nwshp?tab=wn&ned=us&topic=t
> Just type in Microsoft
>

On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 02:36:18 -0400, "SG" <> wrote:

>"Paul Montgomery" <> wrote in message
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>> On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 00:36:22 -0400, "SG" <> wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>
>> I doubt that you'll find a better one. Solution is to get a larger
>> drive to backup to.
>
>
>Hi Paul,
>
>A bigger drive is a solution, not the one I'm looking for, but thanks for
>the reply.

Then just do full backups. If you only have room for one, then
overwrite it with the new one.

Image for Windows, from the makers of BootIT NG. V2 now offers incremental
backups
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-windows.htm

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"SG" <> wrote in message
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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.
>
>
> --
> All the best,
> SG
>
> Is your computer system ready for Vista?
> https://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/
> Want to keep up with the latest news from MS?
> http://news.google.com/nwshp?tab=wn&ned=us&topic=t
> Just type in Microsoft
>

http://www.storagecraft.com/products...rotectDesktop/

I prefer this to True Image.

"SG" <> wrote in message
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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.
>
>
> --
> All the best,
> SG
>
> Is your computer system ready for Vista?
> https://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/
> Want to keep up with the latest news from MS?
> http://news.google.com/nwshp?tab=wn&ned=us&topic=t
> Just type in Microsoft
>