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Backup System required!

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CotswoldCS

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I have had problems getting my Iomega ZIP 250 ATAPI drive working with Windows XP and am looking for a replacement backup system. I have spent too much time trying to get the drive working and have tried everything I can think off without success.

I need to backup 250Mb+ of data - not a large amount by any standard and need to do an automated backup every week.

I have a CD-RW drive but can't find a suitable system that will backup to CD-R automatically. I have setup automated software programs using CD-RW disks before but have had problems getting CD-RW disks to work on other computers and as such have concerns about their practical use for backup purposes. Am I wrong not to consider this method?

I am happy to fork out some cash for some new hardware if it is quick, inexpensive, automated and easy to install. Any suggestions?

What do you use for backup?
 
A USB hard drive should work great, some even come with backup software.

I believe the latest Ghost has DOS USB HD drivers so you could use that if the 250 MB is on a separate data partition.

A tape drive will have software and scheduling, I haven't checked prices lately though. Be sure to rotate the tapes (use more than 1).

(ed) another choice: if the machine is on a LAN, oyu could backup by having a scheduled script copy files to a writable folder on another machine.
 
All good ideas and greatly appreciated but...

USB drive - Quick, fast, can be automated. But not ideal for important backup since there is only 1! If the room goes up in flames I've lost the computer and the backup USB drive. I know fire isn't likely but a cartridge/ optical/ tape system solves this problem.

Tapes - They all seem to be aimed at 1-100Gb data and cost a fortune! Anyone find one suited for SOHO users?

No LAN - this is a single home computer.

Ghost - this can't be automated weekly without user intervention as far as I know. Plus the data is on a single partition with OS.


 
Then USB drive + manually burn its contents later?

Or get the zip working again. CD, zip, HD are the only cheap options, tape is the next step up.
 
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