After a HD crash last weekend (no really important data was lost, I think) and a DLT4000 drive in hand, I'm after some decent backup software. Any suggestions? I'm intending splitting up the backup schedule in two - one for regular data and one for pictures we take with our digital camera (I'm going to start keeping the original tapes of all footage from our miniDV camcorder so that isn't an issue right now).
Programs I'm looking at include NTBackup, Genie Backup 6 Home and Backup MyPC. NTBackup lacks a lot of features in comparison to the other two but is free. One concern I have is that they use a standard backup format, right now I'm not sure what format any of them use, but I'd ideally like to be able to access the data from other tools if possible (e.g. boot up Ubuntu and do some queries on it).
Because I use FAT32 I *could* use a Linux tool, maybe spin myself a custom liveCD or something (or simply take the few seconds to install e.g. Ubuntu), so that is an option. Also, I've got cygwin installed, which opens up yet more options.
So any suggestions? Thanks.
Damien
Programs I'm looking at include NTBackup, Genie Backup 6 Home and Backup MyPC. NTBackup lacks a lot of features in comparison to the other two but is free. One concern I have is that they use a standard backup format, right now I'm not sure what format any of them use, but I'd ideally like to be able to access the data from other tools if possible (e.g. boot up Ubuntu and do some queries on it).
Because I use FAT32 I *could* use a Linux tool, maybe spin myself a custom liveCD or something (or simply take the few seconds to install e.g. Ubuntu), so that is an option. Also, I've got cygwin installed, which opens up yet more options.
So any suggestions? Thanks.
Damien
