Re: computer backup question

The software Uplus Sync can help you to synchronize the selected files
and folders between the usb drivers and your pc. But its operate system
limits to be windows. It can automatic synchronize as soon as the usb
drivers inserted during the set period. I think it can help you a lot.
You can visit http://www.uplussync.com for more info.
Mercellus Bohren 写道：

tom_sawyer70@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Mercellus Bohren wrote:
I am going to get an attached USB drive with mondo-GBs to use as a
backup device for my home computers.

I would like to know if there is a product that will back up just the
files I want to back up, and not muck around with the back up drive
and try to create a bootable device out of the attached USB drive. I
also don't want it to muck around with my operating system on the
primary drive. When and if the inevitable happens, I just want to be
able to pull files over because I figure I'll either be buying a new
computer or reinstalling the OS when things start falling apart.

1) So, basically, is there a very simple backup utility that is clean
and simple, with low overhead, that doesn't try to reconfigure both my
primary system and only configures the backup USB drive as needed
simply to backup files, then auto backup new and changed files?

2) Also, is there a way to partition this USB backup drive to handle
both a windows-based system and a mac-based system on the same backup
drive?

Thanks in advance for any useful information.

Or, you could get two "less than mondo-GBs" drives and use one for the
MAC and one for the winblows-based file systems.

Do you really need to backup GBs of data on a regular basis for your
home computers or would differentials/incrementals suffice...or simply
one drive for a major backup and then smaller drives for day-to-day
backups?

Yes, the first backup would be pretty big. I've thought about the
two-drive scenario and may go that route. I was just hoping for
something simple, using one big USB hard-drive for the three computers
we use, and then unhooking it and putting it elsewhere, until I need to
do a differential backup. As for drive space, my wife's home-business
accumulates massive files (xml source, graphics, and documentation)
that are safely stored in a source-control system drive elsewhere (I
think it's in Utah.), but, it would help her maintain a secure feeling
to know that there is also a place locally where these files are stored
(other than her business computer).

My mac system has a very expensive (my hourly labor for ripping my CD
collection, along with a lot of purchased downloaded music that's not
on backup CD) that I would like to store on a backup drive. It also
holds an archive of professional writing that I've done, that I'd like
to save. Other than this stuff, my mac is pretty much only used to rant
to this newsgroup. I was probably exaggerating my need for a drive with
mondo-GBs, but, hard-drives seem to be pretty cheap these days, so I
was just going to go for it and get as big a one as I could get rather
inexpensively.


What are your specifics, given that an OS doesn't really need to be
backed up and data files are typically not in the daily, multiple GB
range without an already established solution.

I do not want to backup the OS at all, in fact, I do not want any sort
of backup software that's going to muck with my OS at all or try to
create a bootable drive out the USB connected hard drive(s) I'm going
to get. That was part the initial question about the simplest route to
backing up both an XP system and a OSX system.

One reason for all of this is the simple system failure scenario. The
other is that we are trying to develop a disaster plan for the
hurricane that will eventually force us to evacuate Houston, and it
would be nice to do a backup and simply throw the USB drive in the
hurricane box, along with the other stuff and go.

.

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