at the moment i am using drive image to do a weekly copy of my whole C drive to an external.....simple enough.

however, i wan to set up various smaller daily backups bewteen different pcs on my home network....any nice simple software for this? i have tried using Nero for it but cant figure out how to switch a full back up to an incremental one -hence it keeps adding new full backups of my files each time.

 

I use this to sync up a number of folders between a laptop and desktop system, and also an FTP Xbox!!!

http://www.secondcopy.com/

 

How about

Start|Run ntbackup.exe

Select advanced and choose your task and schedule.

 

looks good- but last time i took your advice it cost me thousands

 

what he said - ntbackup and also use this for directory sync

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

 

Nice powertoy, hadn't seen that before.

 

synctoy - works a treat as well Ideal to sync between primary pc and media pc

 

Did you not buy the Buffalo Linkstation then Tiggs ?
http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthread.php?t=503611

 

no- i upgraded my main PC to a much better spec and all the other pcs now use apps/files of of that main pc.....works perfect. Just need to back up the stuff on the main pc now - got 2X buffalow hard drives on the way for that.

 

Ahhh I C ( said the blind man) lol, was going to say that dewbry wotsit had backup software with it....hmmm maybe ur buff hard drives will come with it

if not the utlity on here may work ok with them. (and its free )
http://www.buffalo-technology.com/su...ds-product.php

 

Another vote for Microsofts Synctoy, great little backup utility, with plenty of options, and once it is set up it is so quick to run.

 

Yeah, had the same problem with the .net framework, had to use 1.1 and then it was all fine. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en for .net 1.1

 

If you still have the problem let me know - basically there is a specific check in the installation program that looks for .net but they have coded it for a specific version rather than a greater than version. I have modified a version of the installation program that removes the check, so if you have v2.0 installed then you do not need to install v1.1 of .net

Dave.

 

I cannot host it coz I am at work at the mo - could do later tonight or I could email it to you - just under 1meg in size

Dave.

 

trying to get sync toy to sync files from my pc to a spare HD on another pc on my netowrk and it just chucks up errors, will it not sync accross seperate pcs?

 

Tiggs, this should work as that is how I have used it in the past, but I mapped the networked HD as a drive on my desktop and it all workied fine.

 

ok...seems a drive prob.

the pc i an sending stuff to has 2 drives..i can send stuff to drive a but drive b kicks up errors???? the drive is set to share and shows up under my netowrk?

 

ok will host later tonight

 

what are the errors ?

 

i get a pop up saying "cant copy XYZ. Make sure disk is not wrote protected or in use"

 

can you create a new file on the b drive, ie an empty text file or something?

 

no- nothing can be done to that drive form my pc- using the pc that drive is on its fine - yet all the share boxes are ticked under properties?

 

it'll be permission related then, you'll need to right click the folder on PC B, choose security and make sure your remote access has write access.

Also check permissions under the Share tab as well.

regards,

Greg

 

pm sent with the link