Back-up Advice please

Hi Guys

I was looking for some free soft ware on here to help me backup my pics, music and inportance programes. that would do it regularly and auto. but most of them are to save on a disc by burn.

I have a "Peerless" iomega 20GB drive thing here conected via usb which i got for back up, so i was going to just click my music file and copy to D:\f (my peerless drive) but it said 7 hours and 34 mins which seem a bit long i right clicked for compression with winRAR zip but it ddid not come up with send to any where except compress and email.

So how do i get to compress everything i want to keep for safe keeping and put it in my peerless.

Also wheil i am taking praperation to prepare for the worst to happen how do i make one of them boot disc things.
Sorry about the lack of tech talk and geek terms.
Regards
Terry

 

You can compress everything beforehand and then send it to your D:\ drive.
it won't be fast though because you're transferring to a USB device, which simply isn't as fast as from a hard disk to hard disk.

as for the bootdisk:

www.bootdisk.com

 

Windows has a built in backup scheduling program. It's under Start Menu->Programs->Accessories->System Tools. You can choose the files you want to back up, when, and how often you want to back them up too.

 

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the replys Halo and Mr Earp.

Now it might be me but under ny start-progs-acc-system tools there is no back up i do have activate windows, Character map, disk clean up, disk fragmenter, files & tranfer wizaed, scheeduled tasks, system info, and system restore.

I have now downloaded Karens Replicator and just send a lot of stuff to my peerless 20GB thing so i can save my files pics music and docs now ok but i dont know what to back up, in case something bad should happen to my pc.

regards
Terry

edit: its funny the stuff that should be close at hand is not always there. LOL

 

The things you need to backup are the files that you can't recreate. Such as Word documents, personal picture files, music, videos, tax files, etc. You don't need to save programs that you have on disks. You can just reinstall those.

 

Thanks again guy's

i will back them files up.
i am running win xp home version 5.1.2606 with the service packs 1 & 2

i did run xp pro which had the back up where you said it was, but now i have reformatted i put xp edition on as i thought it was the same and i did not did the networking.
Refards
Terry

 

Dear All,

Please help me!! Situation: Floppy discs i have used to back up the office QuickBooks have become corrupted. I have a whole bunch of Staples recordable CDs (700mb/80min). However when i put the blank CD in the D drive a box pops up stating there is a blank Cd. Do i want to use CD creator, RealOne Player(burn CDs) or take no action. I go to my Computer right click properties, i can select music cd, mixed content etc and then there is blank cd. i select that. i go to click on the D Drive and it says it is "not accessible!! Incorrect action." i go to the file i want to back up, right click copy, go to D drive right click paste, "Drive not accessible, incorrect action!"

I don't want to save music, i want to save DATA! try to save the back up folder that is in the C drive. Do i have to format these CDs? The kids can save music on them but i can't save the company's QBKs back up files?

 

I figured it out. I am sorry I was really dumb. I never tried the CD creator becuase i saw the music symbol and thought there was no option to make a data CD. it didn't work the first time but now its accessible. my QBKs data is backed up!