On Apr 9, 7:28 pm, "MariaL" <laypo...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On Apr 9, 5:07 pm, "Rock" <R...@nospam.net> wrote:
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> > "MariaL" <laypo...@bellsouth.net> wrote
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> > >I bought a 160 GB external drive for backing up my files. I want to
> > > make a full backup of my entire PC. I have Nero installed and I also
> > > have the Windows Backup program that comes with XP. I didn't try the
> > > windows utility because it read it will make a bootable floppy, I
> > > don't have a floppy drive on my new laptop. I used the Nero Backit
> > > up program. My harddrive has 38gb used space, the backup came out to
> > > 30gb..any idea why?
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> > > Also, anyone have any personal experience between these two backup
> > > programs or any advice on any others available that are better.
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> > > Thanks for any and all help.
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> > You can use ntbackup, which is the backup utility in XP, to backup files
> > without using the ASR backup wizard which creates and must have a floppy
> > drive. This is a file backup, however, and will not restore the system to a
> > running state. I also found the ASR process cumbersome to restore the
> > system.
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> > Years ago I moved to a drive imaging program. I currently use Acronis True
> > Image Home, version 10 which is compatible with Vista and XP. It can create
> > a compressed image of a partition or drive. Images can be full, incremental
> > or differential. Saving these to an external drive as you have is a good
> > backup/recovery solution. It can also do file backup, and clone drives.
> > Restores can be done on a file, partition or drive basis. I recommend it.
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> > I set up ATI to do a full image once a week and a differential image each
> > night. I alternate weekly between two different external USB drives.
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> > Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]
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> How do I access the Ntbackup? Also am I correct that your saying
> with that program you can't do a full system restore to how the pc was
> before a crash or lost files. Doing an Image backup with something
> like Ghost or this Acronis, is much better, is that correct?- Hide quoted text -
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My Nero backit up will also do an image backup. Would that be
comparible to the Acronis?