Re: External Hard drive

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On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:31:49 -0700 (PDT), Teflon
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On Sep 17, 8:03 am, "Ken Blake, MVP"
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On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:59:02 -0700, Dezza

<De...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
hello all,
i have a windos xp os and i was just wondering what's the best way to back
up my Hard disk on my pc, or the easiest way, I have a 1TB ex hd,
I mostly want to to back up music, movies and I would like to know what
software is best to back up as well?
Thank you for your answers in advance.

I recommend Acronis True Image.

You also might like to read this article on backup I recently wrote:
"Back Up Your Computer Regularly and Reliably" athttp://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=314

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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Ken,

I appreciate your responses in my post, 'Backups versus Images', have
gone the ATI route per your recommendation in this thread and the
reports of others in my post, plus I read your article - good stuff.
However, I still have some confusion.

In this, or another thread, I seem to recall you (perhaps it was
someone else), making an observation that using ATI to back up data
files was a lot of useless bother - overkill.


It wasn't me. I like Acronis True Image better than any other such
program I've trued, and I recommend it.


Yet, in reading all of
these threads about backing up stuff, it seems the terms 'Backups' and
'Images' keep getting used interchangeably and have become nearly
synonymous. 'Clones' are still 'Clones' - to most folks.


You're likely get different opinions from different folks, but here's
mine: images and clones are both *types* of backups.




So, how does a data file 'Backup' produced with Syncback (as an
example) or a simple copy/paste, differ from an 'Image' produced by
ATI or Ghost? And why is one better (or worse) than the other for
backing up data files that only change when new data items are added
to the file, like songs, pictures, etc, and not revisions, like
documents, financial data, spreadsheets, etc.?

Thanks Ken, hate to be a bother.

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
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