What's a good backup software????

[JohnnyTT]

My buddy is looking to backup a couple of computers on a regular basis, what's a good software?

Thanks,

 

[Oyeve]

For win9x I use Novastor. For NT server I use ArcserveIT.

 

[Ausm]

I use backup Exec for both Win9X and Win2K machines

Ausm

 

[Carbo]

Johnny, I recommend BackUp NOW! NewTech Infosystems, at
www.ntius.com They offer a trial run, too. Excellent program and support.

 

[Azeroth]

Drive image pro 4 from powerquest

 

[JohnnyTT]

Is Norton Ghost anygood? My frient wants to pick up a copy of SystemWorks, if he gets the Prof. version it comes with Ghost.

 

[Brian07]

I use Norton Ghost with no problems. Works excellent..

 

[dirtboy]

At work I use BackupExec, at home I just burn files to a cd.

 

[4824guy]

I have been using Power Quests Drive Image for awhile and love it. I hear that Ghost also is great.

 

[billandopus]

Just wondering ...

What does Backup Exec and Novastor do that PQ DriveImage 4 doesn't?

I'm currently running 98se but thinking (still) of going to 2k. I'm running PQ DI4 currently and i'm happy with it. The only thing I truly wish for is the ability to do incremental backups. That is: the ability for a program to analyze your master backup copy and determine what has changed and then make a modern current backup. Either in addition or subtraction of data.

 

[SillyMan]

my vote is for norton ghost works great for me

 

[josphstalinator]

ghost

 

[Oyeve]

I dont know about those others, but I use novastor because it lets me backup to my DLT drive in win9x. Most of the others mentioned here are for cdr-cdrw drives. I dont know about you, but I have 150gigs of data that I back up regularly and I dont feel like backing all that up to over 200 cds. 🙂 Just a couple of DLT tapes and I am set. Also, with novastor, you could make a bootdisk. This way, even if ALL is lost, you can boot with this special disc and restore everything from tape (if thats the medium you use, if not, then disregard all🙂 ).

 

[DickBurns]

Ghost is so easy and really flexible. You can ghost to just about anything, even over a network and it is great if you upgrade your harddrive 🙂

 

[jleon]

By backup, do you mean having extra copy of your data? Doesn't Ghost make an image of your hard drive? So, say if you only wanted to retrieve a folder from you backed up data, you wouldn't be able to do that with Ghost because you'll have to reload the whole partition.
I know at least tape back up drives you can retrieve selected data. Any thoughts?

 

[evergreen96]

Ghost works for me

 

[Oreo]

Ghost isn´t really a backup app AFAIK, it restores partitions, but that´s not the same thing. If you´d only want to backup files that have been added or modified for example you´d need a "real" backup app.

 

[SillyMan]

I use win98 an I can retreive only certain files from the ghost image if I need only a few files out of it

 

[OutlawWolf]

Ghost is fine.

 

[Sugadaddy]

I have Systemworks Pro with Norton Ghost and it works great. Compression is pretty good and I made myself a bootable cd for when I screw up.🙂

 

[overmars]

imagecast (IC3)

 

[overmars]

that link was to a demo version of the product, which does the same thing as ghost