Re: PC backup best practices

On 15 Sep 2006 at 11:36, David (David Gibbs <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>) commented 
about Re: [PCTECH] PC backup best practices:

Gary Kuznitz wrote:

It will back up everything faster and take up much less space.  Each file 
is only 
backed up once.  If a file was backed up on a previous backup it doesn't 
save it a 
second time.  It's extremely fast after the first backup.  I have one setup 
that 
takes about 10min to backup three PC's across a network excluding cache and 
temp 
files.  

Sounds like a standard incremental backup system.

It's kind of like a smart incremental backup because it knows what to restore 
in one 
pass.  So you don't even think about restoring the original backup first and 
then an 
incremental.  And with an incremental they backup what was changed since the 
last 
full backup so each incremental would backup the same files.  This doesn't need 
to 
backup a file if it's on a previous backup.  

Does it backup the registry, files in use, etc?

Yes.  Everything.
 

What kind of restore capabilities does it have?  Does it have a
mechanism to completely restore a system to it's last backed up state

Yes.  You can restore everything to a new hard drive or you can restore 
individual 
files or folders.  What ever you like.  You can also restore files from the 
last month 
end or the last year end.  It's secrete is it keeps snapshots of every backup 
so it 
knows which files(versions) were on the drives during any one backup.

(assuming a total system failure).

Yes.  Assuming your backup is on a different physical drive. (disk or tape)

Gary
 

david