Dantz Retrospect

Personally I prefer a portable HD and a desktop shortcut to a batch
file whose core is

xcopy [drive]:*.* /s /e /c /r /y /d

Keep a second portable HD and take it home every day (or whenever) for
offsite backups (or just carry the same one home every day if you're
strapped for $).

Once per week write a different batch file that flushes the HD and
makes a fresh copy, since deleted files will remain on the backup
(which isn't necessarily bad).

And never again worry about which incremental file set has your
current data on it.  And just copy files when you need them.

Once I ran a 10-stn network off a portable HD when a supposedly
fault-tolerant RAIDed server died in toto.  Didn't run *well* but they
didn't have to send employees home, either.

I do this with a couple of 250gb Maxtor One-Touch HD's, myself (don't
install the 1T software).  Good riddance to tapes.

-- 
--Matt Robertson--
MSB Designs, Inc.
mysecretbase.com

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