Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Fri Sep 7 12:34:21 CDT 2012
To my knowledge, there isn't anything as neat, fully functional and convenient as time machine / capsule on windows, but I'd recommend the pogo plug. Its a little box that you can attach 3-4 USB drives up to and it comes with software that lets you select what folders you want to automatically backup incrementally. If you want a duplicate backup (for instance an offsite backup), you can also set up another pogo plug device and have it sync your backups over to that other device automatically. Another benefit is that the pogo plug is a personal cloud storage device, so you can access your files on the pogo plug from anywhere in the world securely seamlessly as mounted drives or via a web interface. It also acts as a media server, so it can stream video to your Xbox or ps3 or other media device (via dnla). Music and pictures as well. You can share specific files too like how Dropbox does it with a short link. It does all this but as a personal storage/cloud device. Your data is being stored on your drives, not on some server farm up in the clouds. The only downside is that it doesn't do a full system backup like time machine does. So if your computer gets hosed, you can't just plug in the USB drive and have it bring your system back. Windows 7s backup tool does this (although it's really not a user friendly tool and is slow, but it gets the job done). If you want that for windows xp, I don't know of any great time machine like tools, other than taking occasional clone backups of your machine with whatever. Driveimage xml does this fairly well, but I don't know if it can do it live on xp or requires booting it up on a DVD. - Hans On 2012-09-07, at 5:54 AM, Bryan Carbonnell <carbonnb at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am looking for reccomendations on backup software for windows XP > that works very similar to Time Machine on the Mac. > > I just lost a 1/2 TB drive on my MacBook Pro and with my Time Machine > backup, I'm fairly confident my data is going to be fully recoverable > once I get the hardware back from Apple. > > I would like that peace of mind wiht my XP laptop as well. > > Basically I want it to be set and forget with full and incremental > backups. I think the Time machine backup was full monthly and > incremental daily to an external firewire drive. > > Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Oh and I should add > that a cloud solution will not work. IT and the IT security team would > have a fit. > > -- > Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at gmail.com > Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well > preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, > shouting "What a great ride!" > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com