Re: Recommendations for backup software?

"User" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> Maybe the pay-for version is adequate but the one that came with my
> Maxtor 300 gig external usb is the pits. Won't do network backups which
> is most essential even in home-user situations nowadays ... bleh !!

Yeah, Retrospect is pretty rough around the edges for a home user... it's 
great in corporate environments, though.

I use a very simple program called AllWaySync... it can do folder or whole 
hard drive synchronization, locally or across the LAN. It's really great 
when you set up one computer to act as your backup, and have it running 
AllWaySync, sync'ing the hard drives of the other computers on the network 
to separate folders or partitions of the backup computer's hard drive.

With a 1000 Mbps network, it backs up every computer on the network really 
quickly.

It's also great if you've got a Windows Media Center PC, and you download 
music on another PC on the network... it can synchronize the music on both 
PCs so you've got the same thing on both. Or, if you want your Favorites 
to be the same on different computers, it can sync them so they're all the 
same, no matter which PC you use to add Favorites. Lots of uses...

If you don't use it very much, it's free... but if you go over a certain 
number of files (not sure what the number is), you've got to register and 
purchase to continue using it (otherwise, it'll just sit there, waiting 
for the average files / day or whatever count it keeps to go below the 
trigger level, so it can start sync'ing again). The price is really 
fair... I think I paid $29.95.