if you have a tape drive, internal or external, the windows backup utility works perfectly. we've never had any problems with it, thankfully we have never had to reply on it, but every so often we test the backups and they are always fine.
Slán
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>Hi,
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>Having just gone through a had disk replacement I am investigating backup software. We make backups of the programs we develop and data into zip files that are later copied to DVD, but not of system files and other programs.
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>Would appreciate recommendations. Ideally it would be an automated system.
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>TIA,
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>Alex