Re: Can someone recommend a simple backup proceedure?

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"Malke" <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> News wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> Could someone recommend the simplest backup proceedure.
>>
>> I wish to backup regularly my documents and my applications etc. and
>> downloads. Does anybody know the simplest way to back up regularly?
>>
>> I have bought some rewrittable CD's, it seems that you have to rewrite
>> the entire amount each time you want to change something.
>>
>> For example if last week you backed up 10 folders, and this week you
>> have only one extra folder that in order to keep it on the same disc
>> you have to rebackuup and restore the original 10 plus the new one
>> instead of just the new one.
>>
>> Is their a simple way around this? Without getting into the
>> complexities of "volumes" I dont quite understand this where each time
>> you put in your CD you have to adjust the setting for the volume,
>> which measn you can't just pop it in and see everything that is on the
>> CD. Eg. the simplest way.
>>
>> I hope I am being clear, but I'm not a real in depth backer upper.
>
> I like SecondCopy from www.centered.com. It scales, can be very simple,
> is inexpensive. I don't think it backs up directly to cd-r, although it
> might (I just don't know). For clients, I normally make a folder called
> something clever like "backup" and funnel all the SC backups to it.
> Then all the client needs to do is burn that "backup" folder to cd-r
> regularly. SC can do lots of fancy copying, but the easiest thing is
> the standard copy - it will do an initial copy of the files and then
> only copy what has changed.
>
> Malke
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Many Thanks! Sometimes simplest is the best!!


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