Wednesday, December 17, 2008

backups using MS synctoy

I have had a (fairly non strict i must admit) backup routine now for a couple of years - and thankfull I haven't had a hard drive fail (at home - plenty have at work) yet... Still, we must be careful and press on with making sure our data is not to be lost!

I have been looking for a nice backup utility, as havce used ntbackup till now, which does the job, but you have to do a normal backup, then incremental / differential etc which can be time and HDD space consuming.

Looking at various Sync software, I came across SyncToy v2.0 which really does a good job and gives you a lot of control of how to keep various folders / drives synched. You can add the sync job/s to a scheduled task, to ensure that your backup is up to date.

Hows that? Very nice indeed !

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