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Backup Software for an external Harddrive

Hello,

Our president just purchased a 250 GB external Harddrive which he would like to backup his laptop with.

I need to find the best most efficient software for this.

We are currently using Backup Exec to backup our servers, but I don't know if that is the best.

It will have to be really easy to work with, because he will want to backup & restore at leisure.

Please let me know what you would recommend.

Thanks,

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chumplet,

This is really interesting, I have never heard of this before.

Have you ever ran the copy job during the day, while you are working on other items. Ie, could a user run it say every 2 or 3 hours, and continue to work, or would it slow the system down?

chumplet

I've absolutely run it during the day! The backup jobs haven't seemed to affect the system at all *except* for the initial job which has to copy ALL of the files over to the destination. For instance, if you're keeping a shadow copy of 'My Documents', then the first time you run the job is has to copy everything from the folder to the backup drive. That can take awhile, obviously. After that it just copies whatever files have been added or changed (or deletes files, if necessary), so it really doesn't tax the system. You can also adjust the process 'priority', if you like, so that it copies faster (with more CPU usage) or slower (with less CPU).

As for the previous mention, SecondCopy can also perform .zip archives, if you prefer.

Download it and give it a whirl!

Chumplet