I am trying to find a software program for my PC that will backup approximately 35 gigs of very important files. I have noticed that a lot of these programs want a backup destination within my own computer. This confuses me. Isn’t the point of backup software that it saves your files to their own servers in case of fire, etc?
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1 Ricky E // Oct 2, 2008
Well 1) transferring 35gb of data thru the internet isn’t exactly a sufficent way to go… also you would need to pay for space on their servers..
To answer your question, you could back up to another server on YOUR end (set up a server) or an external hard drive… Or another partition, which wouldn’t help in event of a fire, BUT would help if the OS ever died.
2 Mike O // Oct 2, 2008
Yes. But you will have to pay to have that much space reserved on the web.
I use Norton Ghost (which uses ISO image, backs up about 1.5 gig a minute) and an external hard drive. Total solution for under 200 bucks. The Norton disk also serves as a WIndows recovery disk, which is a bonus. Ghost has a very aggressive backup schedule that I turned off, about once a week or two is enuf for me.
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