Re: Norton Go Back

Hey, finally someone who understands their purpose. I totally agree with
you and do something similar to backup mine with GoBack and Ghost (System
Retore disabled). BTW, have you tried the SyncToy utility? I got it off
the microsoft site recently and have it scheduled to copy select files
(quicken data, My Docs, etc) to my second hard drive on an hourly basis.


"Darrell S" <dumbwid@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> You've obviously never used GoBack. It is NOT merely a version of System
> Restore. It does much more than restore System files. It restores
> EVERYTHING to the condition it was at a previous time within GoBack's
> allocated memory. It is an excellent system. It can also be used just to
> find a previous version of a file if you want to recover to a previous
> condition of a file. You can choose to overwrite the current file or
> slightly change the filename or put it back in another folder so as to
> retain the current version and compare it with the previous version. I've
> used GoBack for years and it works great.
>
> In addition, however, I also keep 3 complete images of my C: drive on my
> 200GB USB external hard drive, using DriveImage 7.0. In addition I keep
> Quicken backups of my banking and online billpaying on another 80GB USB
> hard drive using Quicken backup everytime I use Quicken. (it only takes
> about 5 seconds).
>
> GoBack used to cause problems for users (who never read the instructions)
> when they tried to boot to a floppy (pre WinXP) to change something. Now
> that there is no DOS in WinXP for manually booting, even that minor
> problem is gone.
>
> --
>
> Darrell R. Schmidt
> B-58 Hustler History: http://members.cox.net/dschmidt1/
> -
>
>


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