Comments on: My Adventures in Vista, part 2 http://www.geardiary.com/2007/04/02/my-adventures-in-vista-part-2/ Everyone can understand technology; sometimes it just takes a little translating. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Magnussonhttp://www.geardiary.com/2007/04/02/my-adventures-in-vista-part-2/#comment-11071 Chris Magnusson Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:23:43 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2007/04/02/my-adventures-in-vista-part-2/#comment-11071 I concur, but I use Handy Backup. It has the ability to zip backups, but I just do a file-by-file copy of my data data and my Outlook data to a folder called Backup (gasp!) on a second partition on my harddrive. Then I use Handy Backup to synchronize that folder to 1) a 500 GB external harddrive, 2) a 160 GB portable external harddrive, and 3) my 60GB iPod Video (I only have ~9 GBs of music and video on it, so I figured I might as well make use of the other 50 or so GBs). I also use Carbonite to backup off-site, but I'm considering Mozy for when my subscription expires. Oh, and I also use 4SmartPhone to "backup" my Outlook data. Like Jon Westfall says, <a href="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=54536&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=" rel="nofollow">you can never have too many backups!</a> I concur, but I use Handy Backup. It has the ability to zip backups, but I just do a file-by-file copy of my data data and my Outlook data to a folder called Backup (gasp!) on a second partition on my harddrive. Then I use Handy Backup to synchronize that folder to 1) a 500 GB external harddrive, 2) a 160 GB portable external harddrive, and 3) my 60GB iPod Video (I only have ~9 GBs of music and video on it, so I figured I might as well make use of the other 50 or so GBs). I also use Carbonite to backup off-site, but I’m considering Mozy for when my subscription expires.

Oh, and I also use 4SmartPhone to “backup” my Outlook data.

Like Jon Westfall says, you can never have too many backups!

]]> By: Tyler Pucketthttp://www.geardiary.com/2007/04/02/my-adventures-in-vista-part-2/#comment-10870 Tyler Puckett Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:19:53 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2007/04/02/my-adventures-in-vista-part-2/#comment-10870 I actually use cron jobs and rsync to backup to an external drive. It works well. I'm not sure if cron and rsync are installed on Windows, it is on all UNIX-like OS's like OSX and Linux, though. It doesn't use a proprietary backup format, it just syncs files. Seems like the best way to go IMO... I actually use cron jobs and rsync to backup to an external drive. It works well. I’m not sure if cron and rsync are installed on Windows, it is on all UNIX-like OS’s like OSX and Linux, though. It doesn’t use a proprietary backup format, it just syncs files. Seems like the best way to go IMO…

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