Re: Backing Up XP Home SP3 Remotely

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I thought that there was only a small piece of software necessary to run on
the remote PCs, but they want me to buy the full version ($83) for every PC
I back up with it, even if it is remote. I was told that that is a
life-long license for it , but I got the impression that they also charge a
yearly fee that is required. That kind of spoils the life-long license.
Perhaps the yearly fee is for support, but it didn't appear that it covered
much of it. It was too confusing for me. I wonder if they do that for
Home? That sounds like a bad precedent to me. I can see a subscription for
AV software, as new viruses continue to appear. But a backup program?
Perhaps that is common in a corporate climate? And I'm not too sure what
the yearly fee was about. Perhaps they have a lot of incidents?

So I never tried it. Too pricy for me. I don't like the yearly fee.

Fred

"Frederick R. Hutchings" <frederickh@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I went to Acronis' web site. It looks like a good program to me, too. I
chatted a bit. Apparently, the Home version will allow me to back up the
local computer to another one, but not allow me to back up a remote
computer. It appears to me that they want me to buy 2 copies for 2
machines. Not too unusual, though.

They do have another product called Echo Workstation that will do a remote
backup in a domain or a workgroup, I was told. It probably has a lot more
features, but may cost twice as much, depending on the add-ons you get.
This version also has a command-line interface whereas their Home version
does not.

Three things that I was looking for are accurate backups and restores, the
remote backup, which the Workstation version has, and the ability to wake
the computer from standby to perform the backup. Neither of the
schedulers provided with them support this, but the Workstation version's
command-line ability may allow me to use Win's scheduler to run a script
that will start the backup. Win's scheduler can wake the computer.

I think I might take them up on their free trial. Thanks for the
suggestion.

Fred

"sgopus" <sgopus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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not sure about remote, but Acronis True Image is a really good backup
software

"Frederick R. Hutchings" wrote:

XP Home SP3, XP Pro SP3, Workgroup

How does one backup an XP Home SP3 computer remotely? I have found that
Home does not allow access to the following folders from Explorer
remotely:
Administrator, All Users\Application Data, LocalService, NetworkService,
Owner, Program Files, System Volume Information, and Windows. There are
also several files that my backup program cannot read, as they are in
use.
My backup program cannot use shadow copy on a remote machine. Don't
know
why. XCopy cannot read Program Files or Windows. XCopy can read some
of
the others, though, surprisingly. Here is an exclude list that I use
for
XCopy in the Documents and Settings folder:
\Administrator\
\cache\
\Application Data\Norton\
\Application Data\NortonInstaller\
\Symantec Temporary Files\
\Application Data\Symantec\
\CardSpace\
\Temp\
\Temporary Internet Files\
\LocalService\NTUser.dat
\LocalService\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\
\NetworkService\NTUser.dat
\NetworkService\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\
\RealPlayer\db\Backup\
\DBStore\Backup\
\QBackup\
\Internet Explorer\Recovery\Active\
NTUser.dat.log

Some are just there for convenience, perhaps. XCopy doesn't give any
errors
if I exclude these when I XCopy the Documents and Settings folder. Why
the
difference between XCopy and Explorer?

Is an XP Home client not expected to be as secure as an XP Pro client?

Or is Microsoft's vision that the user only backs up My Documents,
Desktop,
Favorites, and Cookies (or the whole profile, but why if you're not
going to
backup everything), and has to reinstall and reconfigure everything
else?

I imagine that I could get another backup program just for my XP Home
machine. That would work, I bet.

What is the general consensus regarding backup these days?

Fred







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