Backup software

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What's a good 3rd party software product for backing up data??

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The MS Backup program is in the add-ons\msbackup folder on Microsoft Me
CDs but unfortunately it appears that not all OEMs have included this
folder on the CDs they provide with new PCs. Similarly many of those OEMs
who simply provide restore CDs appear also to have omitted this program.

The executable needed to install MSBackup that Microsoft distribute on the
Win Me CD is msbexp.exe so if you have an OEM CD or a recovery CD you
might want to search the CD and see if it was included.

See also MS KB 264541 - "Microsoft Backup Tool Is Not Installed by Windows
Millennium Edition" (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=264541). Note that
Microsoft have not made MSBackup available for download.

Note though that MSBackup is an antiquated application that is extremely
limited and was designed for use with tape drives when hard disks were
small, for example 3 or 4GB.

A number of alternative backup applications exist and which best suits you
depends on your requirements and range from imaging programs that wil back
up an image of your hard disk or disk partition (applications such as
Symantec Ghost, PowerQuest's DriveImage and Terabyte Unlimited's BootItNG)
to applications that allow the back up of selected files and folders on an
incremental basis such as Stomp's BackUp MyPC
(http://www.stompinc.com/bump/bump-retail.phtml?stp) which can also access
QIC files created using MSBackup.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP
mike.maltby@gmail.com


bagger <bagger@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> What's a good 3rd party software product for backing up data??

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If you are simply backing up personal data, and not the OS partition, why
not just copy in Explorer, to any other HD partition, or any removable
media?

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Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS
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> What's a good 3rd party software product for backing up data??