Backing up files daily--Acronis--xcopy

Would Acronis be a good program to use if I'm going to clean my HD, instead
of backing up files on CDs?

I use Roxio, and cannot for the life of me figure out how to put in a CD
with say A-D files on it, and add anything new to it without replicating
those already burned.

Also, it take 3-6 CDs, and right now I want to back up my C Drive (only one
I use for documents) and do it daily, instead of now and then.

How do I accomplish this easy backup on a daily basis?
"Patrick Keenan" <test@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Ted Gervais" <ve1drg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I just ran 'xcopy /e /c /h /o c: h: and it copies everything I had
from drive c to h.

Not exactly.


My question now is, did it copy anything that was needed to boot that
drive to the mbr or whereever, so that if I tried to boot from drive H
(this is a separate physical drive) that it would in fact boot?

Nope. Xcopy isn't capable of doing this.


I have the feeling even though xcopy is a great thing it misses those
tiny things that will permit a new drive to boot up after a current
system was transferred to it.

Critical boot files in precise locations aren't actually tiny things.
Xcopy is simply the wrong tool.


Any comments guys on what I did? Perhaps there is a better way but I
thought that where I have this second drive already mounted in the
computer and it would take the place of the old drive, why not xcopy
everything over from one to the other??
Did I do wrong..??

You need to use a disk cloning utility, which will copy *all* of the files
including the ones you do not have access to, and put the critical boot
files in the precise locations they need to be. I use Acronis True
Image with good success, and it has a free 15-day trial.

http://www.acronis.com/

And as a bonus, you'll probably find that cloning/imaging takes
significantly less time than running xcopy, sometimes hours less.

HTH
-pk



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