I recently purchased a 250 GB, USB 2.0, external hard drive by SimpleTech.
Using their software and selecting to b/u my entire C drive, it takes over 8
hours to copy approx 24 GB. It takes about the same time to do an
incremental backup.
That seems to be an excessive amount of time. (2.4 Celeron)
I have found that the backup utility (ntbackup) that came with my XP Home,
seems to do a superb job and MUCH quicker. Selecting only my "working"
files that MUST be preserved, I have only about 8 GB in my backup set. If I
backup to a file, it requires only 22 minutes to backup to the external
disc. By backing up to a file, I can keep about 25 separate backups, thus
allowing recovery of a file version that precedes a current file with a big
error in it that was made several weeks ago and saved several times since.
Sorry for being so long winded, but I'm just wondering if there is any
problem with this scheme that I haven't seen. Would hate to get 3 or 4
months down the road and find a shortcoming when I really needed to restore
some files.
Thanks for any comments........ Jim
Re: Offsite Backup Service + SBS 2003 ... Running a task locally that backs up the files and then transfers the offline, should work, but as Lanwench posted, that could take a considerable amount of time and nothing guarantees that it will restore when you need it. ... I think you might want to look towards Backup Exec System Recovery Server Edition....ntbackup directly and specify which files you want to backup. ... offsite backup client is just selecting those files manually (I'm hoping it ... (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
Re: Back up scheme ... Using their software and selecting to b/u my entire C drive, it takes over 8 hours to copy approx 24 GB. ... I have found that the backup utility that came with my XP Home, seems to do a superb job and MUCH quicker. ... What this scheme doesn't do is give a way to recover the complete installation if something should damage it, say the hard drive dies, or malware damages it to the point it can't be recovered. ...ATI also can do file backups, and for image backups files can be restored individually. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: SBS Backup- ... 1-I made an attempt to do a mock restore using the Backup/Restore Wizard- ... Upon selecting the backup.bkf file- It shows the files included via the ... The backup time,... > normal or incremental backup.... (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
Re: Back up scheme ... Using their software and selecting to b/u my entire C drive, ... I have found that the backup utility (ntbackup) that came with my XP Home, ... I do 2 forms of backup, one of my personal files like you're speaking of ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: OT--volume icon disappears ... I don't backup completely that often (inportant data files I back up to my ... I then do an Acronis image b/u every 3 months. ... the icons in the notification area are ... Yesterday I did do a System Restore.... (alt.sys.pc-clone.dell)
