Making copies of data so that the copies may be used to restore the original after a data loss event, or for historical retention.
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4answers
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Windows 7 Backup Disk Full
What happens when a Windows 7 backup disk is full? I've been trying to find documentation on the issue without success. Does Windows 7 automatically delete the oldest backup files to free up space ...
6
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3answers
1k views
Best way to Duplicate a Laptop's Hard Drive One-to-One
I have a Lenovo X61 Tablet computer, with a plain SATA drive inside. I have windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10 dual booting on the computer. I want to back up both of these OS's, and their special partitions ...
5
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3answers
4k views
How to encrypt data on an external hard drive?
I want to secure my external (1 TB) hard drive that I use as a physical back-up for my home computer so that if the drive is stolen (eg burglary) then the data is not easily accessible by a common or ...
3
votes
1answer
712 views
How to make TaskScheduler fail when the task returns result different from 0
I have a backup task that fails with a non zero result, yet Task Scheduler says that it executed the task correctly.
Is there any way to tell Task Scheduler that the task failed?
3
votes
2answers
477 views
How do I duplicate my Windows 7 boot SSD drive to another drive?
I have a 2009 first-generation 64 GB SSD drive (manufacturer: G.Skill) that acts as my boot disk for Windows 7. I've installed new applications and media on another hard drive, but the OS is on the ...
3
votes
1answer
3k views
How to copy iPhone contacts on Mac?
I just got a new Mac. My iPhone contacts are extensive and complete. I understand that if I want to sync the computer and the IPhone, I must make sure the computer is the source since all existing ...
3
votes
4answers
5k views
Does Windows 7 Home Premium support backing up to a network share
Windows Vista Home Premium supports automated back ups to a network share, so I would assume the Windows 7 Home Premium would also have this feature. However, several pages on the Microsoft site make ...
2
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3answers
712 views
Windows 7 Backup Fails
I am trying to backup a Windows 7 laptop to my file server.
The error code is 0x80070005. The Event Viewer shows this:
The backup operation that started at
...
2
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5answers
2k views
Backup iPhone contacts to a readable format
is there a way to backup or extract the contacts from an iPhone to a more "open source" like format on windows?
i cant use this iTunes encrypted backup.
2
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4answers
1k views
Can you use other applications while making a backup with Windows 7 Complete PC Backup?
Can you run other applications while backing up your machine?
(My guess is the answer would be no, but I figured I'd ask anyway; I'd love to be proven wrong!)
1
vote
2answers
36 views
WebFront for sharing diskspace
I just set up an Ubuntu server with 4 TB of Raid 5 space and a public IP, and I would like to share it with my family and friends.
Is there any easy Web Frontend, with authentication and quotas, to ...
1
vote
3answers
99 views
How do I backup my bookmarklets?
Any ideas how to backup bookmarklets so I can install them on a new machine? I'm thinking specifically of Chrome -- but I'd like to know how to do the same with Firefox too.
1
vote
4answers
234 views
Creating an image of my hard drive
I've been thinking of making an image of my laptop's hard drive for backup purposes.
What would be the best way of doing this? I know about dd but is there a more user-friendly way, perhaps a GUI ...
1
vote
1answer
2k views
How to backup iTunes on Windows to folder/share, i.e. without “Back Up to Disc”? No DVD writer available!
(Surprised I didn't already find an answer here to this!)
I've got a computer on which I'd like to back up the iTunes library – music, movies, apps, everything. We're talking multiple ...
1
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3answers
2k views
Can I tell Apple's Time Machine to backup a single folder?
Additionally to TM backing up everything every hour, I'd like sometimes to tell it to quickly add a backup of a single folder. Can that be done?
0
votes
1answer
87 views
Backup an installed software
I have some important installed software applications, and I want to backup such applications only (not all disk). Is there any software that can backup those applications (including registry?)
0
votes
1answer
4k views
Successful data recovery but most files are corrupted
I used Recuva and EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard to see if there's any difference in the files they recover. Both software were able to recover files that I want however most of the files where no longer ...
0
votes
2answers
310 views
restore a smaller hard drive 320GB image to a larger harddrive 1TB
I want to transfer my current system hard drive to a larger hard drive. Doing so, I thought of creating an image of my system hard drive which is 320 GB in size.
Would I be able to restore this ...
0
votes
2answers
866 views
How to stop Windows 7 Built-in-Backup creating a System Image of too many drives?
I do not want to include (D:) drive in the image.
I believe I know the cause of this, it's because I have some Directory Junctions and/or Symbolic Links.
Any suggestions other than removing the ...
0
votes
4answers
349 views
Periodic “mirroring” of boot disk in Windows 7
Is it possible to take a full copy of the system (C:) drive in Windows 7 to another disk, whilst running the OS.
The intention is, to keep 2 drives in the system (a main drive and a backup drive) and ...
0
votes
1answer
81 views
Help to keep and update backup copy of folders [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which is the best application to Sync two folders?
I want to know a very simple application to help me to keep and update backup copy of folders.
I want to generate a ...
0
votes
1answer
1k views
Password Protecting Partitions on an External Hard Drive
I'm looking forward to the suggestions I get back on this one.
Here's the rundown:
I'd like to have an external hard drive to use as a backup for my household. Ideally I'd like to be able to take ...
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votes
2answers
146 views
Which backup software for me? [closed]
Must be free (prerably also for commercial use, but I guess I can live without that; home has priority over work; it's just that I like to use the same tools at both if I can)
I don't need ...
27
votes
6answers
30k views
How do I use 7-zip to backup files, but exclude some directories
I would like to use 7-zip to backup a directory, but I would like it to exclude all directories named ".svn" (anywhere in the source tree). Does anybody know if this is possible and in that case how?
26
votes
5answers
10k views
Backing up Google Chrome
Having recently switched to Google Chrome, I was wondering what files and directories I should be including in my backups to make sure that bookmarks and history are included. Along the same lines, ...
19
votes
12answers
2k views
What is a good backup strategy for home? [closed]
We have about 4 computers. What is a good strategy for making sure our data is always backed up ?
16
votes
2answers
29k views
Backup Picasa 'people' tags data
OK, so I've spent a fair amount of time putting names to faces in Picasa 3.5 but in a few days (hopefully) my copy of Windows 7 should arrive and I'll need to reinstall Windows.
So, does anyone ...
9
votes
6answers
622 views
What do I have to back up before I re-install?
It seems that almost every time I re-install windows on my PC I end up forgetting to back up something. Now I consider myself an experienced pc-user, and I've done this tons of times, but it never ...
7
votes
5answers
7k views
Windows Home Server Online Backup Solutions
Does anyone have any good, well priced online backup solutions for Windows Home Server?
I've looked at using s3 but the pricing ends up to expensive with the amount of data I have. Mozy and alike ...
5
votes
6answers
253 views
A good solution for home backups and file/print sharing
I’m looking for a cheap and reliable solution that allows me to share files and a printer in me home network. Raid support and very low power consumption would be nice extras. Should I go with a NAS ...
9
votes
16answers
842 views
What is the best way to back up a computer's files?
I have not done any backing up, does anyone know what would be the best way to do so? I would like free.
UPDATE: incremental backups are best. Offsite is good too.
7
votes
2answers
1k views
Windows backup: user-friendly incremental disk imaging?
I'd like to start a regular backup routine for my parents and grandparents and I'd like some help finding the best software.
My requirements are, in order of importance:
Recovery must be simple (if ...
5
votes
5answers
2k views
Can I make my PC backup and then sleep on demand with WHS?
I really hate the way that WHS backs up at a particular time in the morning.
First of all I don't EVER want my computer turning on when I am not there. EVER. I have a Core-i7 laptop which literally ...
7
votes
3answers
3k views
How to avoid losing all my files when my Dropbox syncs to a compromised Dropbox account?
So I am trying to find a way to prevent a possible Dropbox doomsday scenario.
Say someone gets my dropbox login credentials. They log into the Dropbox
web interface as me. They delete all my files. ...
7
votes
12answers
2k views
Home Backup Solutions [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you backup your data?
Right now, I have a couple of laptops and a desktop running various versions of Windows and Linux. I am currently just manually copying over ...
6
votes
3answers
5k views
Accessing Time Machine backup from Windows/Linux laptops
I'm wondering if I can access my time machine backup from Windows or Linux computers... I'm just wondering what'll happen if my computer fails and I don't have enough money to buy a new mac...
6
votes
8answers
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How do I restore Windows 7 from a System Image to a Boot Camp partition without formatting?
I had a 70GB Boot Camp partition on my iMac that I wanted to increase the size of, so after creating a system image (.vhd) on an external FW drive of the Boot Camp partition using Windows Backup and ...
3
votes
3answers
3k views
Which are the most important directories to backup on a Linux server?
I'm running an Ubuntu 9.10 Linux server. I'm trying to find a way to backup the machine while it is running and from what I see, this eliminates the disk clone utilities. All of the disk clone stuff I ...
3
votes
4answers
699 views
Can I Use My Linux Box As A 'System Imaging' Server? (i.e., Norton Ghost Server?)
I'm curious if anyone has accomplished the following, or knows a good terse description of how to set up the following.
I'd like to set up a Linux server that is able to clone PC's over the network, ...
8
votes
3answers
4k views
Windows7 Full System Backup - Bare metal Restore (maybe diff specs)
I have a HP desktop for development work that I picked up at local supermarket, its Quad core, 2gb RAM, onboard NVidia graphics etc.. pretty much run of the mill. I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit ...
6
votes
2answers
3k views
How to reuse backup on Time Machine on Snow Leopard after a logic board change, after choosing wrong option on popup
After my logic board was replaced, I connected my laptop back to my network, and Time Machine gave me a popup, as shown on this thread:
...
6
votes
4answers
755 views
Covenience/Cost/Life expectancy of storage media
I may decide to pick up the battle of advocating for the use of external hard drives instead of Blu-ray discs for data backup.
External hard drive:
I can get a commercial (consumer) 1TB hard drive ...
5
votes
1answer
2k views
Migrate selected applications from a Time Machine backup
I upgraded to OSX Lion. I have a previous Time Machine backup and I would like to get back just the information from
Mail
iTunes
iPhoto
I wonder if there is any workaround in the migration ...
5
votes
6answers
2k views
Best way to synchronise photos to three machines. Laptop, Desktop, NAS
I'm using Picasa as my photo management software, and I have a collection of photos that gets downloaded from my cameras either onto my Desktop or onto my Laptop.
I'd like to automatically have ...
5
votes
7answers
2k views
What online backup solutions work with Linux?
I'm looking for an online backup solution for my Ubuntu server. Unfourtunatly it looks like both mozy and backblaze do not have a linux client?
The paid version of dropbox does have a linux client, ...
4
votes
7answers
4k views
Time Machine backup equivalent for Windows
What is the closest piece of backup software to being Time Machine (the great backup utility built into Mac OS X) for Windows (particularly Windows 7).
For those wondering, the best features of Time ...
4
votes
2answers
2k views
How can I extract the drive letter for a new mapped drive in a .bat?
I'm creating a simple command-line backup script to use robocopy to mirror "important" stuff to my NAS box. I would prefer not to rely on a hard-coded mapped drive letter for that NAS box. In the ...
4
votes
4answers
257 views
Safest snapshot of a failing harddrive?
I have a headless machine that stopped booting, so I pulled it out for diagnostics and got a message that one of the harddrives was about to fail, so I pulled them all out and I need to get everything ...
3
votes
2answers
607 views
Dummy-Safe Backup Software for Windows 7
Preliminary note: This question is born out of a frustration with the error handling of all backup tools I have used until now on Windows.
Note: I have found these resources on the net with tests of ...
3
votes
4answers
458 views
Good Free Backup Tool - with provisos
I have seen some Backup Questions around. But they are not quite what I am looking for.
I would like to have a back up of my entire hard drive (to an external drive). I would like it to be the kind ...
