riverman wrote:
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.

--riverman



I like Acronis TrueImage. It makes an exact compressed copy of your hard
drive and can be set up to do it automatically. If you have a problem,
like a hard drive failure, you can boot with the Acronis CD and restore
your system, files, program etc. from the backup to your new hard drive.
You can also do a partial recovery if you just lost data or just your
want to restore Windows. It also does progressive backups where it just
stores any changes to your disk since the last backup. Since I run my
business on the computer, I have it scheduled to do a backup upon
shutdown. When I'm ready to shut down for the night, the program starts
and shuts down the computer when finished. The ONLY drawback I've found
is that is does take up ALOT of hard disk space for the saves,
especially the initial "mirror", successive backups are MUCH smaller.
About once a month, I do a complete backup and delete all the old files.

There are others like Norton Ghost that does similar things but I KNOW
TrueImage works.

Willi