Hello All,
I have our main desktop PC which has all of our documents, pictures, financial data, email, email contacts, favorites and music and a laptop that I would like to back-up. Between the two machines, the desktop is far more important. I am running Windows 7 64bit on the desktop and Windows XP SP3 on the laptop. In terms of backup, I only want to back-up the data. I don't care about the applications or OS as I can reinstall those and I would prefer to reinstall them if my hard drive crashes and I to have to replace the hard drive. I would like to keep the backup files on a SATA drive which I placed in an external enclosure. The drive can be accesses via USB or eSATA. I have looked at several sites for recommendations. Here is one I found which is pushing NovaBackup:
http://data-backup-software-review.toptenreviews.com/
I have also used Acronis which seems decent. Anyone else have a recommendation on software? Anyone have a suggestion or change on my backup technique? I would use an online source but I do not want to pay the annual fee. I figure since I am backing up home data, I can lose a month or two and it is no big deal.
Thanks, Bill
I have our main desktop PC which has all of our documents, pictures, financial data, email, email contacts, favorites and music and a laptop that I would like to back-up. Between the two machines, the desktop is far more important. I am running Windows 7 64bit on the desktop and Windows XP SP3 on the laptop. In terms of backup, I only want to back-up the data. I don't care about the applications or OS as I can reinstall those and I would prefer to reinstall them if my hard drive crashes and I to have to replace the hard drive. I would like to keep the backup files on a SATA drive which I placed in an external enclosure. The drive can be accesses via USB or eSATA. I have looked at several sites for recommendations. Here is one I found which is pushing NovaBackup:
http://data-backup-software-review.toptenreviews.com/
I have also used Acronis which seems decent. Anyone else have a recommendation on software? Anyone have a suggestion or change on my backup technique? I would use an online source but I do not want to pay the annual fee. I figure since I am backing up home data, I can lose a month or two and it is no big deal.
Thanks, Bill