Re: What's the best way to backup 50,000 files?

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Another good backup program is Cobian
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm
It's free and pretty easy to set up.

Val
"OM" <om.newsgroup@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Somehow... I've got 50,000 files in my folders.
What's the best way of backing these files up?
What I need: an incremental backup solution.

I tried Windows backup: this needs a floppy!
My laptop doesn't have a floppy. : (

I tried using so far that came with a new external hard drive I bought:
sloooow!

I thought... before I figure out what the best solution is, let me just
copy the files onto my new hard drive.

I've been here for 5 hours now.
It's still friggin copying files. : (

I assume the problem is to do with the number of files?

The data itself is only about 10GB.

Thanks.


OM



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