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Judy G. Russell
July 24th, 2007, 12:39 AM
The Retrospect Express software that came with my Maxtor external hard drive is balking and I am looking for something else that might be good ... I want to do full system and incremental backups and would love to automate 'em. And of course I want cheap, on a W2K Pro system.

Anybody got a recommendation?
Dan in Saint Louis
July 24th, 2007, 08:02 AM
backups
There are a number of happy users of Acronis True Image (http://www.acronis.com/download/) in the PCIS Windows forum.
Scott Crom
July 24th, 2007, 09:21 AM
Retrospect also started giving me trouble, and I too switched to Acronis. So far I'm very happy with it!

Scott
Judy G. Russell
July 24th, 2007, 09:51 AM
There are a number of happy users of Acronis True Image (http://www.acronis.com/download/) in the PCIS Windows forum.Thanks for the recommendation, Dan!
Judy G. Russell
July 24th, 2007, 09:51 AM
Retrospect also started giving me trouble, and I too switched to Acronis. So far I'm very happy with it!Thanks, Scott. I just downloaded the trial version and will give it a shot.
fhaber
July 24th, 2007, 04:42 PM
Acronis reads files from within an image, doing dual duty as an image backup program and file backup utility. If the compressed container goes bad, you're hosed.

You might consider supplementing Acronis with file backup of your important data with either

o Karen's Replicator
or

o Cobian Backup 8

(both free).
Judy G. Russell
July 24th, 2007, 08:22 PM
o Karen's Replicator
or

o Cobian Backup 8

(both free).Free is a very good price! I'll check 'em out, thanks.