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    Yup Drive Snapshot is really good - extremely plain however.&nbsp; 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).&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; I've had to pull a file out
    many-a-time and both TrueImage and Snapshot work great at this.<br>
    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Alister Christie
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    On 10/12/2011 10:36 a.m., John Bird wrote:
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          <div>For complete disk backups:</div>
          <div>&nbsp;</div>
          <div>I use Drive Snapshot&nbsp; - have used it for 6-7 years and it
            has saved my hide several times.&nbsp;&nbsp; Complete backup of a PC
            with 200GB data including Windows runs in about 2 hours.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
            Backup size on USB disk is around 100GB.&nbsp; Backups can be
            mounted and Windows Explorer used to browse for individual
            files.&nbsp;&nbsp; Cheap, fast, small and reliable.</div>
          <div>&nbsp;</div>
          <div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
              title="http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/"
              href="http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/">http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/</a></div>
          <div>&nbsp;</div>
          <div>Note the web site doesn&#8217;t make this clear, but it is easy
            to restore C: from Windows too &#8211; it offers to restart and
            run the restore before windows boots &#8211; similar to Windows
            Update etc</div>
          <div>&nbsp;</div>
          <div>Some time ago the best one in the reviews was Acronis
            disk backup.&nbsp;&nbsp; otherwise Norton Ghost.</div>
          <div>&nbsp;</div>
          <div>Key folders Backup</div>
          <div>&nbsp;</div>
          <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&#8217;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).&nbsp; Takes from a few seconds
            to a minute or two depending on size of folders&nbsp; .&nbsp;&nbsp; Program
            contains&nbsp; ZipKit so there are no external DLL&#8217;s and its
            nearly as fast as Pkzip/Winzip.</div>
          <div>&nbsp;</div>
          <div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
              title="http://www.jbcl.co.nz/JBCLMenu.htm#JBCLHawkOffsiteBackup"
href="http://www.jbcl.co.nz/JBCLMenu.htm#JBCLHawkOffsiteBackup">http://www.jbcl.co.nz/JBCLMenu.htm#JBCLHawkOffsiteBackup</a></div>
          <div>&nbsp;</div>
          <div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE:
            12pt">John Bird<br>
            &nbsp;</div>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:
                  'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: blue">Can anybody
                  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:
                  'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: blue">Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:
                  'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: blue">John <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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