khunsanuk Posted September 25, 2004 Report Share Posted September 25, 2004 Hi, I just lost a couple thousand emails from my inbox , and have decided that it is time I get something to help my out doing the backups. Up until now I did this manually whenever I thought of it, i.e. seldom. So, what I am looking for is a backup program that at certain intervals backs up whatever I have told it to back up (files, dirs, whatever). Would be really great if I could set different intervals for different files/dirs. Any recommendations? Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo Posted September 25, 2004 Report Share Posted September 25, 2004 The backup program built into XP lets you schedule backups at the interval you specify and you can create multiple jobs so you can do different intervals for different sets of files. Pretty much everything you are asking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted September 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2004 Hi, Except that I am using Win2000 Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo Posted September 25, 2004 Report Share Posted September 25, 2004 Good news, it's the same! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 25, 2004 Report Share Posted September 25, 2004 I realize that you don't use it, but Outlok has a good backup system for emails. I use Nero for scheduled automated backups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted September 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2004 Hi, Found the backup tool and have added two jobs (a daily one for email) and a weekly one for other stuff. Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted September 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2004 Hi, Choose 'incremental' as backup method btw. Assume that is fine. Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 25, 2004 Report Share Posted September 25, 2004 I would only add that saving to a separate partition or HD is preferred and Offsite backups of critical data is sensible for any one. Floods, fires, thieves or catastophic HD failure make onsite backups minimal at best. That is why I use DVDs for backups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo Posted September 25, 2004 Report Share Posted September 25, 2004 One way to get offsite backups is send an email to an account you create for such purposes with the backup files as attachments. This also gives you access to your stuff from anywhere world wide. Now that google gives gigabyte email boxes for free, seems it could me a nice choice if you have a decent internet connection to send out the data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted September 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2004 Hi, "I would only add that saving to a separate partition or HD is preferred" It is now going to a different HD. Will try to burn this to CD every week / month / whatever Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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