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Win7 on-site backup
By: rekha singh | 18 Jun 2010 12:19 pm
I have a 500Gb bookshelf USB drive to which I used to backup my WinXP machine. I've replaced it with a Win7 machine and the backup I was using is performing a little less reliably than I'd like. I've noticed Win7 has some peculiarities - I still haven't figured out how to get its networking to work with the WinXP machines on my home network. I've been reading about online bakups, but I'm curious about experiences with onsite backups, free or for pay, before I install something, especially if I have to pay for it. My habit has been to do complete (not incremental) backups, uncompressed, nightly, saving the last 3. CommentsThis link and its discussion should show you how to network. I like Win7 native backup and would never use online services because I do not want my stuff on someone else's computer..
I use the incremental back up
By: rekha singh | 18 Jun 2010
As for the native backup - I've read a couple piece seemed to be less than happy with it, but I was never really sure why - which is why I asked for opinions and experience here. I think I'll give it a try, though. As for online storage - I've been of that mind all along, but it appears the cloud is the coming place to work. Except for stuff that really needs to be secure. In my case, that's pretty much limited to my Quicken files, which I can back to a thumbdrive as a backup to the bookshelf backup.
By: rekha singh | 19 Jun 2010
I have never read of unhappiness but then it takes a lot for people to agree a new version is good from MS. It is far better to save to a USB hard drive bigger than your internal HD or if the size its OK to a Memory pen of several GBs.
By: rekha singh | 19 Jun 2010
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