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Good backup program wanted

muleman

muleman

Gone But Not Forgotten
After my troubles of the past few days I am considering using a backup program about once a month. Any ideas? I got most things back and running from my spare drive but some would not install the way I had them before. Seems Firefox and others have gone to toolbars for most everything and I ended up building them to resemble what we were used to. Don't need that headache again. I lost some email addresses but that was my own fault for not backing them up more often. I am looking for something to do a total restore after a format and reload of OEM disk.
 
muleman said:
After my troubles of the past few days I am considering using a backup program about once a month. Any ideas? I got most things back and running from my spare drive but some would not install the way I had them before. Seems Firefox and others have gone to toolbars for most everything and I ended up building them to resemble what we were used to. Don't need that headache again. I lost some email addresses but that was my own fault for not backing them up more often. I am looking for something to do a total restore after a format and reload of OEM disk.
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I,m certainlly no puter wiz Bill , But I use Gmail for emails & they have a huge storage space that a lot of people I know use to store back up files & other things from their puter in case of a crash .

I dont know how much that would help in your case . But I save anything important in gmail by mailing it to my self & if something happened I can log into my gmail account from any computer .

I believe They have something like 5GB of storage now . I dont know how it works these days but used to someone would have to send you an invite to open a gmail account , If this sounds like something you,d like to try let me know & I,ll send you one . :smile:
 
You should do what i do and partition your hard drive in to 2(more if you need to)......have your main OS on one and keep everything else important on the other....if the OS go tits up you can re-install that and not lose everything else on the other partition.

you can use this to do it...free trial....

http://www.soft32.com/download_151.html

PS.... you can also do this when you do a fresh in-stall of XP without software ....if you know what i mean.
 
That is basically what I did. I did the install with the disk and let it backup what was on it when it crashed. Some things are no longer free when you go to install them so I had to move them to a desktop folder to get them to run. Others just changed so much I played hell getting all the settings like i had them before. I guess it was a good learning curve but toolbars are a pain if you don't use them very often. I must say once I got the hang of the mozilla ones they are not that bad. just about every change I needed was to a toolbar of some sort. And they added a delete after 24 hour function to email that took me 2 days to find and toggle off.
 
Can I suggest www.mozy.com It backs up while you sleep and it does it every day.

Programs have to be reiinstalled on a fresh reload of the O/S. The sometimes do not reinstall the same.

Look carefully when reinstalling downloaded programs as they often provide you with toolbars as part of the install. You can opt out of the toolbars.

Hope this helps.
 
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