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I want to move beyond CDs for backup of my home PC (XP) & laptop
(Vista). The obvious solution seems to be a USB External Hard Drive.
Most of the one’s I’ve looked at seem to come with vendor supplied
backup software, but don’t seem to have much detail on the software
capabilities.
I don’t know that I want continuous backup. I’m more inclined to want
to say when to do a back up (probably weekly) and want to keep several
generations of the backup (this week, last week, the week before, etc.)
Though possibly a continuous backup will allow me to keep “n” copies of
a file and that might be easier for restores.
I also want to back up *both* my desktop and my laptop to the one
external drive.
I’d like to hear your about your experience with specific hardware, the
vendor supplied software, or non-vendor specific software (e.g. Ghost or
Acronis, and your approach to backup).
Thanks, Sam
(And I’m curious about how these drives connect. Do they just plug in
and act like a USB Memory Stick? Can you reformat them? Make multiple
partitions? Do they all work the same way?--I’ve read some that Western
Digital drives install some strange software.)
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