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photo back up
Since I went digital in 2001, I have about 20gb of pictures totaling
over 25,000 images. I want to back them up and not do any damage by compressing them. I do incremental backups after events where I have taken a lot of pictures but want a more comprehensive and planned kind of back up. Does anyone know of a simple back up program that will let me archive for example, files dates from this date to that date or after a certain date? I want to be able to back up to an external hard drive or to a CD or DVD. I looked at Microsoft backup but it was doing strange things with file dates. I am running Windows XP on a laptop and have an ext HDD. Thanks in advance. I looked at Stomp soft by Migo $39.99 at a computer store and thought maybe that would do it. Is anyone familiar with it? |
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With only 20GB, you can just mirror what is stored on your internal hard
drive, to an external hard drive at periodic intervals. Then store the external HD off-site. If you're file storage was bigger, then I would try Microsoft Sync toy, which was free last time I checked. "gp photo" wrote in message ups.com... Since I went digital in 2001, I have about 20gb of pictures totaling over 25,000 images. I want to back them up and not do any damage by compressing them. I do incremental backups after events where I have taken a lot of pictures but want a more comprehensive and planned kind of back up. Does anyone know of a simple back up program that will let me archive for example, files dates from this date to that date or after a certain date? I want to be able to back up to an external hard drive or to a CD or DVD. I looked at Microsoft backup but it was doing strange things with file dates. I am running Windows XP on a laptop and have an ext HDD. Thanks in advance. I looked at Stomp soft by Migo $39.99 at a computer store and thought maybe that would do it. Is anyone familiar with it? |
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gp photo wrote:
Since I went digital in 2001, I have about 20gb of pictures totaling over 25,000 images. I want to back them up and not do any damage by compressing them. I do incremental backups after events where I have taken a lot of pictures but want a more comprehensive and planned kind of back up. Does anyone know of a simple back up program that will let me archive for example, files dates from this date to that date or after a certain date? I want to be able to back up to an external hard drive or to a CD or DVD. I looked at Microsoft backup but it was doing strange things with file dates. I am running Windows XP on a laptop and have an ext HDD. Thanks in advance. I looked at Stomp soft by Migo $39.99 at a computer store and thought maybe that would do it. Is anyone familiar with it? I've used Backup Magic for several years to backup my data to external drives. It's a very simple program that has never failed to operate as expected (which is a big statement when it comes to software.) It costs US $25. http://www.moonsoftware.com/bmagic.asp Some people think it's foolish to buy it when there are numerous free programs that claim to do much the same thing, including Windows backup. As far as I'm concerned, however, it's one of the best utility programs I've ever purchased but I have over 1TB of data to backup.. I use Western Digital, 1TB, dual-drive, "My Book" enclosures. With only 20GB of data, you might not need a backup program at all. You could probably do it manually in Windows Explorer. Just the same Backup Magic is a great little program. You can always download the free trial and see for yourself. |
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If you're file storage was bigger, then I would try Microsoft Sync toy, which was free last time I checked. Here's the link to the SyncToy: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en I don't understand "If you're file storage was bigger, then I would try Microsoft Sync toy". Try it anyway. It will seem slow the first time you configure and run a sync (but no slower than copying to another drive), but it's fast after the initial sync. And, yes, it is still free. Also, if you use Stomp, you can only access the files with Stomp. Not that that's necessarily bad, but with the SyncToy, it's just another storage location that you can directly access from explorer, my computer, DOS, however you want. |
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In article . com,
gp photo wrote: Since I went digital in 2001, I have about 20gb of pictures totaling over 25,000 images. I want to back them up and not do any damage by compressing them. I do incremental backups after events where I have taken a lot of pictures but want a more comprehensive and planned kind of back up. Does anyone know of a simple back up program that will let me archive for example, files dates from this date to that date or after a certain date? I want to be able to back up to an external hard drive or to a CD or DVD. I looked at Microsoft backup but it was doing strange things with file dates. I am running Windows XP on a laptop and have an ext HDD. Thanks in advance. I don't know about backup software like what you describe. I have probably around 300GB of digital photos. My photo library sits on an external disk drive. Each time I dump a lot of photos on it, I copy the entire thing to another external disk drive using the built-in Mac OS X cloning utility and I take the copy to my office at work. I also keep the most recent stuff on my laptop. This is as simple as it gets for backups, but it works, its cheap, and my photos and other files will survive even if my apartment goes up in flames. |
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gp photo added these comments in the current discussion du jour
.... Since I went digital in 2001, I have about 20gb of pictures totaling over 25,000 images. I want to back them up and not do any damage by compressing them. I do incremental backups after events where I have taken a lot of pictures but want a more comprehensive and planned kind of back up. Does anyone know of a simple back up program that will let me archive for example, files dates from this date to that date or after a certain date? I want to be able to back up to an external hard drive or to a CD or DVD. I looked at Microsoft backup but it was doing strange things with file dates. I am running Windows XP on a laptop and have an ext HDD. Thanks in advance. I looked at Stomp soft by Migo $39.99 at a computer store and thought maybe that would do it. Is anyone familiar with it? I use grandfathered external HDs with one in a safe place in my house and the other in my bank safety deposit box. I also periodically back up to optical, formerly CD-R and now DVD-R. The key is to establish a file management scheme that works for your needs and a reasonable backup scheme. Sounds like you have the incrementals nailed. As to software, I just do a plain Windows folder copy for my external HD backups and Roxio Easy Media Creator 8 for optical. I could use my Acronis True Image 9.0 but haven't tried it for this purpose. -- HP, aka Jerry |
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gp photo wrote:
Since I went digital in 2001, I have about 20gb of pictures totaling over 25,000 images. I want to back them up and not do any damage by compressing them. I do incremental backups after events where I have taken a lot of pictures but want a more comprehensive and planned kind of back up. Does anyone know of a simple back up program that will let me archive for example, files dates from this date to that date or after a certain date? I want to be able to back up to an external hard drive or to a CD or DVD. I looked at Microsoft backup but it was doing strange things with file dates. I am running Windows XP on a laptop and have an ext HDD. Thanks in advance. I looked at Stomp soft by Migo $39.99 at a computer store and thought maybe that would do it. Is anyone familiar with it? I use the KISS principle - there is no simpler backup process than the backup command to a hard drive, which are bigger and cheaper now than ever. After copying files to fill a mirrored pair, remove one and store safely off site, keep the other one. Plug in two fresh ones, format, and start all over. Do like I did, buy a crate of 300Gb drives for a bulk price. Slap a name/date label on each one and refresh both annually by reformatting each one and recopying from the other. An external dive housing makes this easy, my brother's closet makes it possible. For mission critical backups, screw finicky optical drives, fragile optical disks, changing technology, disappearing/morphing proprietary software, shiny new optical coasters. Hard drive technology isn't going anywhere for a long time, nor is the copy command. KISS... it's what makes **** keep working. P.S. - I had one drive fail to spin up when new, and the retail shop replaced it at no cost during an errand trip to the beer store. Win-win. -- jer email reply - I am not a 'ten' |
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in my opion the best way to back to back up your files is to store
them on a removable harddrive |
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