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urlwolf:
Just found this 'one click backup':
http://www.acritum.com/ocb/index.htm

I haven't tested it exhaustively, but it could be very nice. I have seem people here complaining that most backup software use zip...

If incremental backups are possible this could be a killer solution.

f0dder:
Hm, it uses an external copy of WinRAR... so you'll need both this copy + preferably a registered WinRAR version. WinRAR itself is a pretty solid piece of code, but I wouldn't recommend it for backup jobs as such - it does have some in-use-file support, but... meh.

For backing up my source code, I used to use two batch files. One for a weekly "full" backup, and one for a daily "incremental" backup.

FULL: c:\programs\winrar\rar a -os -tsm,c -agYYYYMMDD-HHMM -ac -k -m5 -md4096 -r -rr5p -s \\server\backup\[email protected] *
INCREMENTAL: c:\programs\winrar\rar a -os -tsm,c -ao -agYYYYMMDD-HHMM -ac -k -m5 -md4096 -r -rr5p -s \\server\backup\[email protected] *

But IMHO, backup solutions that depend on a normal generic-purpose archiving software are going to have shortcomings of one form or another.

thunder7:
I am currently using Acronis "True Image" http://www.acronis.com/
I Love it.

f0dder:
I am currently using Acronis "True Image" http://www.acronis.com/
I Love it.
-thunder7 (May 17, 2006, 02:54 PM)
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I'm pretty fond of it myself for drive imaging (sure beats the crudd Ghost has become, even if older Ghost versions are still decent), but for the ~12-client installation at my work, the file-based backup of TrueImage is not appropriate.

Sometimes, files that aren't (or at least shouldn't have been) modified are backed up - resulting in some way too huge incremental datasets. I will need to upgrade the diskspace in the backup server soon, partly because of this. Also, sometimes the daily backups aren't done - and it's hard to troubleshoot why. And there isn't a cleanup/rotation setting for the incremental backups, which means I have to hand-trim the datasets every now and a while.

Genie Backup (discussed in numerous threads around here) seem to be more capable at file-based backup, even if it uses the inefficient ZIP file format. I haven't tested it thoroughly yet, but my initial impressions are that I purchased the wrong backup software (Acronis) for the cheery ol' folks :/

thunder7:
Yes I also have this problem as well.
Best I can do is find everything created that day or 3 days ago copy paste it to a DVD.
Which is ok for me I move around a lot Which can easly fill up a DVD.

Not the best solution but there is not a lot out there that works well.
It needs a high compression ratio, lots of options.

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