Vista home - alternative to poor backup utility?

I have recently purchased a laptop which comes with Vista Home Premium. Got
it all set up and went to backup but found the supplied backup utility seems
very limited. Is there a way to invoke a complete backup as I had on XP and
2000 or am I forced to use a third party backup utility?
Richard

"ferrymanr" <> wrote in message
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> I have recently purchased a laptop which comes with Vista Home Premium.
Got
> it all set up and went to backup but found the supplied backup utility
seems
> very limited. Is there a way to invoke a complete backup as I had on XP
and
> 2000 or am I forced to use a third party backup utility?
> Richard
>


Best to use a 3rd part application such as Acronis

"ferrymanr" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I have recently purchased a laptop which comes with Vista Home Premium.
>Got it all set up and went to backup but found the supplied backup utility
>seems very limited. Is there a way to invoke a complete backup as I had on
>XP and 2000 or am I forced to use a third party backup utility?
> Richard


For a proper backup solution, you should look to get an external USB drive
and a program like Acronis TrueImage OR a 'One Touch' backup solution where
the drive and software come as a package.

Anything else is a waste of time.

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Home versions of Vista do not do a complete system backup.
Use Acronis or something like that.

"ferrymanr" wrote:

> I have recently purchased a laptop which comes with Vista Home Premium. Got
> it all set up and went to backup but found the supplied backup utility seems
> very limited. Is there a way to invoke a complete backup as I had on XP and
> 2000 or am I forced to use a third party backup utility?
> Richard
>
>

ferrymanr;598342 Wrote:
> I have recently purchased a laptop which comes with Vista Home Premium.
> Got
> it all set up and went to backup but found the supplied backup utility
> seems
> very limited. Is there a way to invoke a complete backup as I had on XP
> and
> 2000 or am I forced to use a third party backup utility?
> Richard

Acronis TrueImage is a very good backup program, and has some rather
surprising features. Look for it here : 'Backup software for data backup
and disaster recovery in Windows and Linux - Acronis'
(http://www.acronis.com)


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Thanks to all for your replies. Acronis seems to be the answer.
Richard

"ferrymanr" <> wrote in message
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> Thanks to all for your replies. Acronis seems to be the answer.
> Richard

Best part is the free trial.
though I'm sure it will work fine...if it doesn't...at least you don't waste
any money

ferrymanr;667236 Wrote:
> I have recently purchased a laptop which comes with Vista Home Premium.
> Got
> it all set up and went to backup but found the supplied backup utility
> seems
> very limited. Is there a way to invoke a complete backup as I had on
> XP and
> 2000 or am I forced to use a third party backup utility?
> Richard

Few days ago i was also backing up all of my data to my external hard
drive at the end of every day,so I started using the Acronis True Image
Home software to do so. I made the first backup yesterday, which
understandably took a long time. But now I'm running the first daily
backup, as a test, and it says it'll take 4 hours to finish!.So due to
all these difficulties i quit Acronis & now i am using Magic Backup
online service & really it's great .Magic Backup is so easy to use, and
so reliable. Unlike other backup products that perform "scheduled"
backups during the middle of the night, Magic Backup is always on the
lookout for new or changed files that need to be backed up. So i think
it will be helpful for you.


--
Lambert

'Magic Backup' (http://www.magicbackup.com/)
Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com

Take a look at Ghost. It has been around since DOS and works great on Vista.
It takes one hour to backup and verify my system of 120gb. Very Fast

"Lambert" <> wrote in message
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>
> ferrymanr;667236 Wrote:
>> I have recently purchased a laptop which comes with Vista Home Premium.
>> Got
>> it all set up and went to backup but found the supplied backup utility
>> seems
>> very limited. Is there a way to invoke a complete backup as I had on
>> XP and
>> 2000 or am I forced to use a third party backup utility?
>> Richard
>
> Few days ago i was also backing up all of my data to my external hard
> drive at the end of every day,so I started using the Acronis True Image
> Home software to do so. I made the first backup yesterday, which
> understandably took a long time. But now I'm running the first daily
> backup, as a test, and it says it'll take 4 hours to finish!.So due to
> all these difficulties i quit Acronis & now i am using Magic Backup
> online service & really it's great .Magic Backup is so easy to use, and
> so reliable. Unlike other backup products that perform "scheduled"
> backups during the middle of the night, Magic Backup is always on the
> lookout for new or changed files that need to be backed up. So i think
> it will be helpful for you.
>
>
> --
> Lambert
>
> 'Magic Backup' (http://www.magicbackup.com/)
> Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com
>

In article <uTqWD#>,
says...
>
> Take a look at Ghost. It has been around since DOS and works great on Vista.
> It takes one hour to backup and verify my system of 120gb. Very Fast
>
I have great experience on Vista64 HPremium
with free version of Macrium Reflect
( supports both 32 and 64b )

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

Speed is similar, about 35 GB system partition (occupied size)
into 18GB compressed partition image in 14-15 minutes.

It has great restore possibility,
based on Linux bootCD with nice GUI.

There is also possibility to mount backup image as a disk
( probably R/O )

It once saved my ass when my boot disk unexpectedly died,
( SMART was OK before ) and I restored backup
to a new disk of different size and vendor.
I was able even to choose size of restored partition.

After usual partition check, Vista booted fine.

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