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joiwind:
Uranium Backup-joiwind (August 28, 2011, 03:43 AM)
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The payware versions are moderately to seriously pricey.  Do you use one of them, or the free one?
-rjbull (August 28, 2011, 11:25 AM)
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The free one ...  ;D

Stoic Joker:
The question for me, is will any of the above handle the Exchange Server transaction logs (replay/truncation requirements)? I've about had it with Symantec BackupExec and would dearly love to scour it from my world.

Steven Avery:
Hi,

And a little-known but excellent prog (which I have recommended before) is : Uranium Backup - many features and versions.
-joiwind (August 28, 2011, 03:43 AM)
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Yes, I saw that Uranium had some solid fans.  And looking at the features it looks like the extras in the paid versions are largely extras that would not apply to a home backup to an external disk (unlike FBackup and Syncback where the free is simply emaciated).  CNet has an interesting set of comments.

With the possible exception of the VSS issue, which is probably not really an issue to a standard data backup (an interesting question is when a note or PIM or regular application app really locks a file, does that affect our backups ? And is VSS the solution ? Any experts ?).  

The Uranium folks also have a remote access software called Supremo that looks at a glance interesting.

I'll likely add them to the front post, which is focusing on free backup software that is ready for primetime along with a couple of low-cost highly respected programs that are popular in the freeware-shareware worlds.

Has anybody succeeded in using some of these softwares in native "backup set" mode to do cloud backups ? Much of the cloud backup software is klunky or obstrusive, I like Drivehq because it works with a very nice, solid dual pane file manager interface ... afaik it still does not have the "backup sets" idea.  If folks have succeeded in using these softwares to cloud backups very successfully, please share away.

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Possibly worthy of a try on the simple level:

Back4sure - Ulrich Krebs .. also has a calender program .. freeware
http://www.ukrebs-software.de/
http://lifehacker.com/5473204/back4sure-makes-quick-work-of-backing-up-files-to-a-usb-drive

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For backup urls this is fairly recent and extensive, not much jumps out.
http://www.techplex.net/postst48427_backup-synchronization-160.html

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And Zback looks like a nice add-on to the portable arena:
http://titan.fsb.hr/~dzorc/zback.html
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/window-on-windows/how-do-i-use-zback-as-an-easy-portable-backup-system/1808

One of those sync-backup tools.

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Steven

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