- May 23, 2002
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I'm looking to start backing up my data in case something goes wrong.
I have one PC on Vista which has craploads of pictures & music as well as my normal documents. Also have a 2nd PC with Win 7 which has standard documents. I want to back both of these up to a shared drive.
I've looked into online solutions like Mozy and Carbonite and they seem great but I'm cheap so I'd rather have something that I can just backup to a network drive.
Requirements are:
-Automatic backups that run when the PC is not in use. Don't want to have to manually run a backup or schedule it to run at a specific time.
-Some sort of incremental/differential type backup so it doesn't have to redo the whole thing every time since it's tons of data.
-Prefer that it can go to a Mapped drive so both PCs can backup to the same drive over the network.
What are good backup programs to look into using?
Any suggestions?
I have one PC on Vista which has craploads of pictures & music as well as my normal documents. Also have a 2nd PC with Win 7 which has standard documents. I want to back both of these up to a shared drive.
I've looked into online solutions like Mozy and Carbonite and they seem great but I'm cheap so I'd rather have something that I can just backup to a network drive.
Requirements are:
-Automatic backups that run when the PC is not in use. Don't want to have to manually run a backup or schedule it to run at a specific time.
-Some sort of incremental/differential type backup so it doesn't have to redo the whole thing every time since it's tons of data.
-Prefer that it can go to a Mapped drive so both PCs can backup to the same drive over the network.
What are good backup programs to look into using?
Any suggestions?
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