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please suggest a cheap (free if possible) and easy win2k backup system...

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somethingwitty

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I recently bought a 60gig external hd for my mom's laptop (win2k), and I need a cheap, easy, and ideally free program/system that can do the following...

my goal is to EITHER take an image snapshort OR back up all the files and reg settings (i.e it doesnt have to be an image, but that would probably be the easiest way) and back them up using a rotating system of removing the oldest backup. That is, she has a 10gig or so drive, so figure I can safely allow for 5 backup sets; after the first 5, the 6th replaces #1, and so on. This needs to be as close to one-touch as possible, as my mother isnt too great at the copying, pasting, cutting, etc thing. also, this WONT be nightly/automatic.

Currently, her system has plenty of free space, so she can backup to the HD then copy/replace that to the external.

So, for starters, figure I need a backup program that can be set to run as one-touch (one click is fine too 🙂) and will automatically name the backup with either an incremental numbering system or that day's date. I guess I could go by "date created", but figure filename would be easier when dealing with a batch.

assuming I am capable of writing the batch file (err, hope so-if not that'll be the next question), can someone please suggest backup software that can run to preset settings and naming conventions with a single click. win2k...

thanks.
 
I haven't tried it, but the newest Drive Image and Ghost supposedly can back up the system partition without dropping to DOS -- if so, they may be able to backup directly to the USB drive.

Just make your mom learn the 10 mouse clicks to run either of those.
 
Originally posted by: Smilin
Originally posted by: Smilin
Why not ntbackup.exe that's already built into your OS. It would work perfect for this.
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unless i'm not seeing an option, the windows utility only appends backups. so it keeps adding each backup to the same file forever. if there were way to limit how many appends it would do and rotate out the oldest backup, that would be perfect
 
It will do it, you may have to use some command line options. See the helpfile for command line, but here's das uber tip: Schedule yourself a job using the wizard, then goto the schedule jobs tab, double click your job and hit the properties button. See that little "run field? That's where to slap the command line arguments you want. Kindof a combo between gui and command line eh?

 
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