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Any suggestions for an easy, incremental file backup application?
jfunk:
I use Cobian Backup to back up all of our family photos to off-site ftp nightly. It does incrementals, I believe. And it's free :)
zaphod:
A DOS batch job(s) with Xcopy commands that is scheduled to run in the middle of the night works great for me. Backs up the important, changed files to an external drive. Super simple, super cheap.
Donkey_Kong:
Bought a 2tb terastation recently. All the talk of it being almost impossible to lose your data etc sold me on it. Paid $1100 btw. Within a couple weeks I was able to add about 500 gigs of data to this thing including DVD backups, home video files and photos. Out of nowhere it is impossible to connect to the terastation. A few e-mails to T.S. determines that the terastation itself needs to be replaced and that in order to swap out drives I would need to front them $1400 msrp for the hardware during an exchange and would be refunded when they received my broken unit. I don't have $1400 and cannot access the 500gig of files.
The thing was awesome when it was working, but now it is nothing more than an $1100 cement block sitting on my desk.
Cakemeister:
Regarding the Terastation:
My biggest question is now noisy is it?
My last NAS (el-cheapo POS) died and now I'm stuck backing up data computer to computer. I use SyncBack, BTW.
There was another NAS from Infrant (now they've been bought out by Netgear) called the ReadyNAS, but that one is supposed to be very noisy.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: jfunk on September 20, 2007, 08:03:44 am ---I use Cobian Backup to back up all of our family photos to off-site ftp nightly. It does incrementals, I believe. And it's free :)
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I just write it all out to DVD about once a month, the whole set of photos, two copies each time. Movies/mp3 I don't really care much about, certainly not enough to spend $700 to back up $500 worth of DVDs and CDs. The family stuff, though, we don't have hundreds of gigs of stuff, so DVDs are just fine for us and have a lower failure rate than any hard drive.
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