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Yup Drive Snapshot is really good - extremely plain however. If you
are wanting lots of bells and whistles then Acronis True Image is a
good option - but I've found it a pain to get the configuration
correct for nightly backups (at least in as much as to get it to
remove the old backups before the drive runs out of space). I've
also herd of people using Shadow Protect very well for continuous
backups.<br>
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I've only ever done a complete restore once - and that was with
Drive Snapshot, which worked fine. I've had to pull a file out
many-a-time and both TrueImage and Snapshot work great at this.<br>
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<div>For complete disk backups:</div>
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<div>I use Drive Snapshot - have used it for 6-7 years and it
has saved my hide several times. Complete backup of a PC
with 200GB data including Windows runs in about 2 hours.
Backup size on USB disk is around 100GB. Backups can be
mounted and Windows Explorer used to browse for individual
files. Cheap, fast, small and reliable.</div>
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<div>Note the web site doesn’t make this clear, but it is easy
to restore C: from Windows too – it offers to restart and
run the restore before windows boots – similar to Windows
Update etc</div>
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<div>Some time ago the best one in the reviews was Acronis
disk backup. otherwise Norton Ghost.</div>
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<div>Key folders Backup</div>
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<div>If you want to quickly backup a few key folders to a USB
drive zipped up then I have one: - wrote just such a program
at the request of Christchurch clients who couldn’t get at
their server for 6 weeks (they had tapes but no server with
the tape drive and software and the network supplier also
was locked out of their office). Takes from a few seconds
to a minute or two depending on size of folders . Program
contains ZipKit so there are no external DLL’s and its
nearly as fast as Pkzip/Winzip.</div>
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<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
title="http://www.jbcl.co.nz/JBCLMenu.htm#JBCLHawkOffsiteBackup"
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recommend a good backup system, just for backing up to
an external Hdrive?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:
'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: blue">I downloaded a
trial version of "Nero BackItUp" but appears poor in
UI, slow as a dog and poor setup options.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:
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