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I have a WD My Book World II and used to manaually copy my documents over to back up.
I then set up the supplied software and left it to its own devices...its now backed up 300Gb and a few minutes ago I 'verified' all the backups and was about to restore my wheezing laptop to factory settings including a format. But then I clicked 'restore' just to see what happened...an error message is what happened...incompatible with this version of Windows?!! So I did a little Googling and the first thread I find is chock full of reviews stating the restore process is at best hit and miss.
So, seeing as it'll take several evenings to backup 300Gb to the drive over a LAN, is there any other (preferably free) software that will keep me backed up in future. I've lost all faith in the WD software...
I use Syncback Pro at work home - it only seems to have a problem when dealing with very large ( multi millions / 500 gb of XMl ) of files.
If it's just documents rather than a full PC backup, check out Robocopy.
Free and pretty efficient after the first big copy.
I use NTI BackUp Now (full strength - not the EZ version) - nice and easy to use, sits very much in the background and can set up a nice variety of different routines you can specify.
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Cheers
Danny B
I use syncback free version. It's OK for what I do
Robocopy, though - 😆 for the naming
Thanks guys, having done a painfully slow manual backup I will try those suggested 🙂