Vista - Re: Backup advice requested for Vista Ultimate

12-13-2008

On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:25:10 +0000 (UTC), John The Geek
<JohnT@xxxxxx> wrote:

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>First, I'd like to apologize for my initial post of this to the XP group. I am correcting this
>by reposting to the proper group.
>
>-------------------------------------------------
>
>I have tried Cobian (free) and Acronis Home (not free) and neither
>of these meet my needs. Cobian was fine except that it tended to hang
>when trying to communicate with my NAS. Acronis was just slow, 3 days
>to do a full backup (My Documents and Outlook App Settings).
>Not acceptable.

You have hardware issues.

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>Can anyone recommend a good solution that will allow me to create
>weekly full (as explained above, only My Documents and one other file

are >required for my backup) and daily incrementals and have them
stored >either via drive mapping or ftp to my NAS. Both of these
methods work >outside of the realm of a backup program so I'm happy
with using either. > >Thanks

12-16-2008

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:47:50 +0000 (UTC), JohnTheGeek
<john@xxxxxx> wrote:

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>On 2008-12-14, John The Geek <JohnT@xxxxxx> wrote:

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>> On 2008-12-14, Norman <nraddick@xxxxxx> wrote:
>><snip>

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>>> You have hardware issues.

>>
>>
>> I have a fresh install of Vista Ultimate now so we'll see what happens with Acronis
>> once I start it up.
>>
>>

>10.5 hrs to create a 125 GB backup of what I needed to be backed up.

Beats the crap outta three days. I can't help you with the rest of
your problem, but incrementals should take considerably less time if
you do them daily... or even more frequently.

--
Norman
If people concentrated on the really
important things of life, there'd
be a shortage of fishing poles.
Doug Larson

12-13-2008	#1 (permalink)
Norman n/a posts	Re: Backup advice requested for Vista Ultimate On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:25:10 +0000 (UTC), John The Geek <JohnT@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: >First, I'd like to apologize for my initial post of this to the XP group. I am correcting this >by reposting to the proper group. > >------------------------------------------------- > >I have tried Cobian (free) and Acronis Home (not free) and neither >of these meet my needs. Cobian was fine except that it tended to hang >when trying to communicate with my NAS. Acronis was just slow, 3 days >to do a full backup (My Documents and Outlook App Settings). >Not acceptable. You have hardware issues. Quote: >Can anyone recommend a good solution that will allow me to create >weekly full (as explained above, only My Documents and one other file are >required for my backup) and daily incrementals and have them stored >either via drive mapping or ftp to my NAS. Both of these methods work >outside of the realm of a backup program so I'm happy with using either. > >Thanks
My System Specs

12-16-2008	#2 (permalink)
Norman n/a posts	Re: Backup advice requested for Vista Ultimate On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:47:50 +0000 (UTC), JohnTheGeek <john@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: >On 2008-12-14, John The Geek <JohnT@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: >> On 2008-12-14, Norman <nraddick@xxxxxx> wrote: >><snip> Quote: >>> You have hardware issues. >> >> >> I have a fresh install of Vista Ultimate now so we'll see what happens with Acronis >> once I start it up. >> >> >10.5 hrs to create a 125 GB backup of what I needed to be backed up. Beats the crap outta three days. I can't help you with the rest of your problem, but incrementals should take considerably less time if you do them daily... or even more frequently. -- Norman If people concentrated on the really important things of life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. Doug Larson
My System Specs

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