Daily back-ups of only certain files/folders i.e. Work/OneNote

Is there a thinkvantage utility that I can use to specifiy certain folders and files to back-up daily. I want to back-up my Office files daily and create a new back-up each day - meaning dont overwrite yesterday's backup.

Any help with this would be great, thanks in advance!!

P.S. I looked in Rescue and Recovery and was only able to schedule back-ups of the entire hard drive which I will do intermentantly, not daily.

 

If TV does not do it, I'd suggest a copy of Acronis True Image. Just FYI.

 

You can schedule back-ups of CERTAIN folders with that? If not I can try the windows utility.

 

bumparoooo

 

Also Norton Ghost will easily do this for you. I stuck a 1gb SD card in my computer (has to be popped out before shutting off or it is considered a boot disk by Norton Ghost when you start back up). Am currently only using this to backup a handful of small files.

Another cool thing is if you open Norton Ghost, you see a visual representation of space -- a disk with a pie slice of data so you know how much space you have left. Can set backup files on a schedule or do it when you want. Or can backup a folder. Seems easy to use. Got it not too long ago at Buy.com on sale (equiv price after visa card, $17). It compresses files -- very efficient with text and mailbox files -- and I think is replacing old files with newer ones.

 

I second Acronis True Image 10.0. It allows you to make incremental backups of your files, application settings, email, or image the entire HDD.

 

I have Norton Ghost also. It's so great how you can image the whole drive with all the installed software and updates and restore all of it at once if something bad happens. Ghost > True Image

 

Playmaker: doesn't True Image do the same thing, just make the backup after you've updated and installed everything... Not sure if I understand your comment...

 

Yes it does do the same thing. "Ghost>True Image" is a typical "claim w/o substantiation." It's all the rage nowadays.

Well, if it's any help, Norton Ghost bundled with PartitionMagic is often available with a rebate, after which the bundle becomes free.

 

ah ha... I didn't catch your sarcasm

How yah been, seems like you were gone for a few days...

 

What're ya talking about? I've been here every day. Too often, actually. Gettin' myself into all sorts of trouble, especially in regards to "claims w/o substantiation." :wink: Yep, good ol' lack of evidence.

 

I'vd had norton ghost and it slowed down my boot times and always ran in the background w/ an icon in the system tray, does acronis true image do this? Any website I can download AND pay for it legally?

 

Turn off the background process by looking within Ghost settings. It works for me, and yes, the background process does slow stuff down.

 

There are two processes running in the background, but i havent noticed much, if any, of a difference at all. No icon in the system's tray.

 

Playmaker, I haven't tried imaging my drive. Can you put the image on any external drive (that might or might not contain other data) and later somehow put it on a new drive if your laptop drive crashed? I am somewhat fuzzy about how this would really work. Has anyone actually done this?

 

Why do you guys have to spend so much money on something that Microsoft had given for free?

Use Microsoft Backup... Open the backup utility and select the folders and files you wish to back up. Then the backup utility will prompt you whether to start the backup or schedule it. Schedule it to run everyday under the administrator's user rights and there you go.

There's no need to spend more money to get something else to do when there already is something free for you to use.

Regards,
Nick

 

Looks like this is for XP?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/bott_03july14.mspx
I found it. Appears you need to set it up every time you want it to run? Or perhaps you set up a schedule and it runs on that schedule.

I can say I liked the setup Norton Ghost has though. Anything similar for Vista users?