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J-Mac:
I started using BackUp4All but kept it only for a year - only allowed to use on one PC, needs separate purchase for others, even a laptop. So I ditched it. Went with Genie Pro but after a time they stopped supporting it basically; turns out all efforts were going toward their new product, Genie Time Machine or something like that. Supposedly OK for newbies, not good if you want to tweak/schedule it in detail. Ditched that too. I did pick up Oops late last year - or maybe it was early this year? Though it is not in use currently; filled up my 1 TB external drive in no time flat! And deleting files was a nightmare! Takes a long time to select each file to delete - can't select all at once - and then it simply creates another folder and dumps the deleted stuff there, just in case you really didn't mean it! For almost a TB of deleted data that took me hours on end to get rid of it. Oops is currently on hold...

Mostly sticking with my primary Jungle Disk plus SFFS to anothjer external drive. Oh, and Acronis for images.

Thanks!

Jim

iphigenie:
Thanks for the update - it is strange how we accumulate these things but end up using them less.

I havent used an image in a while, I own
- an old Acronis or two,
- a fairly recent Paragon Disk Manager
- and Image for Windows/Dos/Linux + their boot tool which I never went through the hassle to install once I switched computers. It's a lot of hoops to jump through, that one, just to enforce their license against people using copies

I did use Acronis many times in the past, back when Windows was easier to break - time saving! But they screwed me badly when they rejigged their licensing - they removed my middle "pro" version and downgraded me to the home version, which didnt have the one feature I had paid the pro value for. All that really soon after I had upgraded. I stopped buying. Went to the other products, but never really used them for images after that.

So all I do is manual and SFFS sync's to various usb/network drives + an online backup system which is mostly there for settings, not files. Would definitively not be enough in case of a major disaster like fire/lightning, but is enough to get all important settings (like saved games!) on a new machine or fresh install.

Intriguingly I went to the Genie site and their "timeline" and "backup" product are still there, + a cloud offering that claims to be fast. Timeline doesnt look too bad (i remember loving the 13 ghosts backup with its automated versions), but if it doesnt allow me to pick things like all these weird settings applications sprinkle about (which the "GBM" allows, and also has collections of settings for every game and application under the sun it seems)

(PS: they claim to have a summer sale 50% ending today)

nosh:
I haven't updated my backup software for a while now since things work fine and updating just leaves me with the job of ensuring nothing has gone awry.

I've recently started doing a rotating full system backup (Windows + installed programs) using True Image and a little batch file. The batch file takes care of the 'rotating' bit - deletes the oldest backups, so at any given time now I have a full backup of the last 7-9 days. These get mirrored to 3 internal HDDs daily and hopefully (this part's manual  ;) ) to an external drive weekly. 

I'd been getting careless regarding full system backups and would only do them when someone (usually mouser :)) reminded people to backup. It's a relief to have the thing automated and out of the way.

Trivia: I'm running the same Windows XP install now for seven years using drive imaging to save & restore clean images - it's spanned 3 major hardware upgrades, IIRC, and works like a charm. :)

joiwind:
I can highly recommend (as I use it for quite some time now) this very good but unjustly little-known backup solution :Uranium Backup.

There are seven versions from freeware to complete pro.

PS Wasn't there a recent post or thread about "necroposting" ?

cranioscopical:
I can highly recommend (as I use it for quite some time now) this very good but unjustly little-known backup solution :Uranium Backup.

There are seven versions from freeware to complete pro.-joiwind (July 09, 2011, 01:21 PM)
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Thanks for the tip, I hadn't heard of it.

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