Best PC backup software?

[Zakalwe]

I have been doing a few searches on Google and the like, trying to find some links to backup software.

A friend of mine works in a small architectural office - 3 PC's, one win95, 2 win98, networked. They have at least a gig, and probably more of files, some of which have been sitting there for about four or five years, and NO BACKUPS.

They are getting a CD burner, so I said I would check out their options for setting up regular backups.

Who knows of a good, fairly basic utility for doing backups? Most likely just a few small data files each day - once they have archived off all the old stuff that is.

Every time I do a search, I get links to either big commercial packages which are probably to complex ( and expensive ) for these people to consider, or to software for other platforms.

It kind of seems like no one is really interested in backing up PCs!

Thanks for you interest - Alex

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[charmler]

I use Plextors CD Res-Q. It came with the burner and I backed up 4+ gigs on three cd-roms. It only took about 20 minutes total and you can use it as a boot disk to totally restore the drive. It even repartitioned a drive to the original state after one of my clients was naughty.

[MiKe85]

ahhh who wants to back stuff up? That seems to take all of the fun out of it. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[Zakalwe]

Your'e exactly right, Mike, those of us who consider ourselves to be at least reasonably "computer literate" usually don't worry to much. The most excited I usually get is when I am about to format, and am going through my **** sorting out what to burn to CD. ( sad isn't it? )

Which is also exactly the reason why I have little or no idea of what is a good way to go about setting up a regular backup "regime".

Alex