osmethne
December 23rd, 2003, 05:37 AM
I'm looking for usable and useful home-user/workstation backup software.
Scenario: I drop a blank CD into the drive and leave it there for a month. The first night it works out which files have been created by myself (e.g. excludes %windir%, parses uninstall files to exclude application binaries, allows me to exclude by directory and filetype) and burns them to disk. Every night for the rest of the month it burns a delta onto the same disk. For most people other than musicians and graphics artists, a single CD should be more than enough for the month.
Why? This is actually for a group of users who need backup software that requires zero effort to keep running. They don't need restorable backups, but they do need something that runs every night to ensure that every single useful file they create is automatically and silently backed up, with minimal configuration and disc-swapping, and regardless of the directory the files are stored in.
Files are likely to be stashed all over (so no simply backing up My Documents), and might be only occasionally updated (e.g. home accounts every month), so the software should take this into account. User retraining is not an option, high software usability a requirement.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Scenario: I drop a blank CD into the drive and leave it there for a month. The first night it works out which files have been created by myself (e.g. excludes %windir%, parses uninstall files to exclude application binaries, allows me to exclude by directory and filetype) and burns them to disk. Every night for the rest of the month it burns a delta onto the same disk. For most people other than musicians and graphics artists, a single CD should be more than enough for the month.
Why? This is actually for a group of users who need backup software that requires zero effort to keep running. They don't need restorable backups, but they do need something that runs every night to ensure that every single useful file they create is automatically and silently backed up, with minimal configuration and disc-swapping, and regardless of the directory the files are stored in.
Files are likely to be stashed all over (so no simply backing up My Documents), and might be only occasionally updated (e.g. home accounts every month), so the software should take this into account. User retraining is not an option, high software usability a requirement.
Does anyone have any suggestions?