"riverman" wrote in message
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Can anyone recommend a good freeware program for making a constantly-updated
backup of my system? I just got a 200GB external HD, and would like to
install a program that keeps track of any changes I make to my internal HD
and keeps a mirror copy on the external HD, just in case I have another
total system crash like last year. I also want to backup SWMBOs system on
the same external drive, if possible, although hers would be backed up
intermittently (whenever I managed to bring the external HD over to her
office and update).

Thanks, and, uh....TL.

This is what I use for certain key workstations at work:
http://tinyurl.com/5lvya. It first creates a full system backup, then backs up
files to a network drive as they change on the workstation. If the network drive
is unavailable, as it is on some of the notebook PCs that come and go, files are
backed up to a secondary location on the notebook until the network drive is
again available. At that point, the temp location files are copied to the
network drive. Sweet. Also, it can keep up to five revisions of backed up files.
It's not free (well, I got mine *free* when I bought a $1,800 network drive),
but at $50 it's as good a value as they come, IMO.
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TL,
Tim
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