I am using Backup , running on Ubuntu, to a Verbatim drive plugged into a USB socket.
It is clever enough to delay if the drive is not plugged in and then to do the backup (automatically) when the drive is eventually plugged in at some later time. Regards, Nic On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 21:40 +0000, Terry Coles wrote: > Hi, > > My niece has just bought herself an external USB drive so she can backup her > files. She doesn't know much about it, apart from that she needs to take > backups (a huge step forward I think). She's asked me for a good backup > program. > > I used to use a good one on my daughter's computer, but when her hard disk > failed, it turned out that she hadn't been running it anyway and she lost > everything (including the name of the backup software I'd installed). As a > result I can't find the darn thing. > > So I'm looking for a good Windows Backup program than does incremental > backups > (not sync) to external drives. My niece is quite switched on, so I'm sure > she'll get the hang of it without too much difficulty, but (like anything) if > using it is too clunky she'll stop. It needs therefore to be reasonably easy > to get working for a lay person and also to get data back when needed. > > Any ideas? > -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-03-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
