What is the best PC backup software? - GoFuckYourself.com

BRISK · 10-13-2005, 04:32 PM

I want to be prepared in case my hard drive completely dies, so I want to backup all the data on my laptop.

Got any software reccomendations?

jukeboxfrank · 10-13-2005, 05:34 PM

drive image 7

KRL · 10-13-2005, 06:22 PM

I really like Acronis True Image 9.0.

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...cts/trueimage/

Got PC Magazines award for Editors best pick also last year and a lot of others too.

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...ge/awards.html

bigdog · 10-13-2005, 06:24 PM

use two different ones just to be safe

Luc · 10-13-2005, 06:52 PM

we've been using norton ghost for years.

Spunky · 10-13-2005, 06:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Luc

we've been using norton ghost for years.

I like that software as well..had to use it once

BRISK · 10-13-2005, 07:02 PM

Here's a question: If my hardrive is currently filled with 24GB of data, and I create an image backup using some backup software, how big will the image file the software creates be? Will the image also be 24GB?

Vitasoy · 10-13-2005, 08:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KRL

I really like Acronis True Image 9.0.

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...cts/trueimage/

Got PC Magazines award for Editors best pick also last year and a lot of others too.

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...ge/awards.html

I can't agree more, acronis rocks

Mike AAG · 10-13-2005, 08:23 PM

i did a ghost of my hard drive not long ago... trouble is, how do you know it has worked until its too late? puzzler :P

fuzzylogic · 10-13-2005, 08:46 PM

buying a new computer and putting the other one in remote storage.

better yet,

distribute files that must be backed up onto p2p. that is the best why to preserve data

*edit* in theory

woj · 10-13-2005, 09:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BRISK

Here's a question: If my hardrive is currently filled with 24GB of data, and I create an image backup using some backup software, how big will the image file the software creates be? Will the image also be 24GB?

Depends on what kind of data you have on your drive, but between 12GB-24GB.

kmanrox · 10-13-2005, 09:25 PM

get a RAID drive? if not, get an external hard drive...

BRISK · 10-13-2005, 09:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike AAG

i did a ghost of my hard drive not long ago... trouble is, how do you know it has worked until its too late? puzzler :P

I was wondering that too. What if you go to do the recover process and it just returns some error - file corrupted or something?

Doctor Dre · 10-13-2005, 09:41 PM

Norton Ghost is the shit

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BRISK Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 12,240	Here's a question: If my hardrive is currently filled with 24GB of data, and I create an image backup using some backup software, how big will the image file the software creates be? Will the image also be 24GB? __________________ I post on GFY so that when people ask me what I do, I can tell them that I work with the mentally retarded.

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